"Like a diamond I have many facets
that hold me, which one you see
depends on how you hold me
to the light."
(Nyla Alisia)
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Nyla Alisia is an artist
Nyla is an award-winning published poet, a spoken-word performance poetry artist and talk-radio personality . Very active in the poetic community world-wide, Nyla is the founder and host of three international poetry radio programs, The SpeakEasy Cafe open-mic poetry radio show, Re-verse and The Inkwell. She also teaches Writer's-Block Is Just An Urban Legend and Stop Pissing Off Your Muse, workshops for writers. She devotes herself to the betterment of poets, encouraging them to take poetry out of journals and giving it a voice. In addition to her radio programs, Nyla is very active in the local poetry community. She performs her spoken-word with a local writing company, has performed at the Ohm and Calabash nightclubs in Portland, has been the guest feature on radio programs, in trade publications and at local writing events.
Nyla's poem The Secret Of Me, Published in The Gold Man Review, has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize.
Her writings have appeared in numerous publications world wide, including Poetry Quarterly, Caesura Literary Journal, Concise Delight, Haiku Journal, The Gold Man Review, Four and Twenty Poetry journal, Poetry and Prose Magazine, Anastomoo Handwritten, Deep Tissue Magazine, Poetry Over Music Magazine, and many anthologies, including Flowers of Love, an international anthology of poetry and translations, where her poem was translated into three languages.
Nyla is her own genera. She writes from a place inside that flows seamlessly between the innocence of her inner child and the depths of a woman's most secret and passionate human psyche. No matter what subject matter she tackles, the result brings a highly emotional impact for the reader.
Nyla is also a published and award winning photographer. Nyla relies on the gift of vision in her creations. Her photographic interests are vast, though she is best known for her black and white images with edgy and Gothic themes. She has a special passion for images with dramatic light and shadow play. Her photos are like picture-poems, each telling their own story. Along with Joel Zac, Nyla teaches Expanding Creative Vision workshops for photography.
Though she is artistic in many ways, creating multimedia art, The Absinthe Diary Quills pens, jewelry, drawing, and painting, her most passionate love is and always will be writing.
"I do not do well when I get bored. I tend to make the mundane fabulous,
finding myself in the most precariously marvelous situations. Left unattended
I have the habit of creating all kinds of mischief inside my pointy little head!"
(Nyla Alisia 09)
finding myself in the most precariously marvelous situations. Left unattended
I have the habit of creating all kinds of mischief inside my pointy little head!"
(Nyla Alisia 09)
