Hi! My new book, Territories, is out now on Instagram. The book is a long scroll, available totally for free, here: @Territories Official synopsis and trailer are here: In the aftermath ...
My First Mental Health Month - by Nick Orsini on Medium
Weight plate, forty pounds on the small of my back- Father and son, Tampa-bound to stand for the anthem. Parachute down to the fifty yard line, camouflage dad hats all losing their mi...
401(k) bleak balance over quarters makes me wonder how closer we are to cut-ins, live from a sidewalk, bankers boxes for businesses. Anchors scraping sand, wondering where the time went. “Wh...
A Barnegat brain, fogged from a night spent in the state park. Paths to evacuate a hurricane, a calm, slow walk over Route 72: the tongue of the bridge freezing all that unruly, sideway...
Bought a used Hasbro Mean Gene at the flea market in the Meadowlands. Hollowed it out after a Home Depot run so we could get high with him. Lately thoughts come with gills, with sca...
Talking to you on the phone, I just want to let you know that you still sound like you. Friends check on friends, even though it’s easier to assume we’re great. New dad? Must be so thrilled. ...
Adorkablelife has been reopened and will be updated with new poetry, letters and songs. The past few years have been hard. This is that story. There is a version of us, of me, of you, on upst...
44 hung in my suburb, on a front lawn. They hung Her too, orange prison clothes on. Stuffed dolls strung in trees, and my white blood cells - a response to disease. Trapp Comics, Foodtown, income...
If youve been feeling overwhelmed by things, read this. I’ve been really coming to terms with a ton this last year. https://medium.com/@nicholasrorsini/notes-on-rabbit-holes-78428e44b075
I spent Christmas at a Red Roof Inn Express. A special kind of misty, public lonely with the shapes of people who never really left. Another species on the brink, another acquaintance on the edge...
I’ve been having a hard time processing this latest mass shooting and writing about it helps https://medium.com/@nicholasrorsini/leaving-the-house-2b61e5626a5a
so, I know too many women affected by sexual harassment, a lot of whom have been telling their stories. My heart breaks for each and every one of you. https://medium.com/@nicholasrorsini/ihearyo...
here’s an article I wrote about football, me, and what it means to take a knee. https://medium.com/@nicholasrorsini/just-stop-watching-it-9774998a149b
Hi. Every year I write about this. Every year I hope things can get better. This is the story of a town that, sixteen years later, never healed from the events of September 11th. If you haven’t...
hi. I wrote this over on Medium. It’s important. Please take 4 minutes to read it. https://medium.com/@nicholasrorsini/fostering-kittens-9875cd64a258
Our generation had no “Howl.” Now we do. MeadowlandsPoem.com
Thank you to the woman who took a chance on a 23-year-old limo dispatcher and gave him his first job in advertising - for believing in him, and leading by example- personifying dignity and streng...
On Saturday, I marched to The White House. When I think about why. Safety is the easiest retreat that exists. You can hide fear because it fits perfectly under your income, your possessions, t...
hi. it’s been awhile. Let’s talk. I’m not going to lie to you. I’m still having a really hard time with what happened on 11/7/16. Since 2009, one of the undertones of this blog has be...