My writing explores masculinity, vulnerability, identity, and the ways we learn—often slowly—how to live more honestly with ourselves and with others.
Across poetry, memoir, and essays, these books trace different moments in that process: unarmoring, saying yes, and learning that strength and softness are not opposites.
Below are my published works.
Every Feeling I Could Name
Every Feeling I Could Name is a reflective collection of poems exploring the quiet, complicated landscape of human emotion. Moving through moments of restlessness, tenderness, grief, wonder, and joy, these poems linger in the spaces where language struggles to keep up with what we feel. With curiosity and care, the collection traces the subtle textures of the inner life—the thoughts we return to, the feelings we circle, and the small recognitions that help us understand ourselves a little more clearly. Every Feeling I Could Name invites readers to pause, look inward, and discover the many shades of being human.
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Breathing Room
Breathing Room is a meditative collection of poems about breath, body, and the quiet work of returning to yourself. Moving through cycles of inhale, pause, exhale, and release, these poems explore stillness, movement, vulnerability, and the small moments that help us carry less. Rooted in the rhythms of yoga, meditation, and lived experience, Breathing Room invites readers to slow down, soften, and remember that even in the tightest spaces, there is always another breath waiting.
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Strong Enough to Be Soft
In Strong Enough to Be Soft, Nicky Bennett reflects on the quiet rules many men inherit about strength, emotion, and identity. Through personal essays and cultural observation, he examines the cost of emotional suppression and the courage it takes to feel more fully. The result is a thoughtful exploration of masculinity, vulnerability, and what it might mean to rewrite the script.
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Boy Unarmored
Boy Unarmored is a poetry collection about growing up, breaking quietly, and learning—slowly—how to live without hiding. Through moments of grief, performance, identity, and first love, these poems trace the long process of removing the armor we build to survive. What remains is something softer, more honest, and more human.
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The Bro Code is Broken
In The Bro Code is Broken, Nicky Bennett takes a thoughtful and sometimes humorous look at the unwritten rules many boys grow up learning—rules about strength, emotion, dating, friendship, and masculinity itself. Through a series of reflective essays, Bennett explores where these expectations come from, how they shape the way men relate to themselves and others, and what it might look like to rewrite those rules for a healthier, more honest version of manhood.
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Everything I Said Yes To
(Content Warning: Adult Content) Everything I Said Yes To is a fragmented, sensual memoir composed of poems, reflections, and intimate moments of self-discovery. Moving through desire, curiosity, and the body’s quiet awakenings, the book traces a personal journey toward permission—permission to want, to feel, and to be seen. It is both an exploration of intimacy and a record of the many small “yeses” that shape a life.
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Forthcoming Books
- Ordinary Light – Poems