Toni Nealie

Toni Nealie is the author of The Miles Between Me, an essay collection about homeland, dispersal, heritage and family, published by Curbside Splendor. Recent essays have appeared in Guernica, The Prague Review, The Offing, and The Rumpus. Her essay “The Displeasure of the Table” was nominated by The Rumpus for a Pushcart Prize. Originally from New Zealand, she holds an MFA from Columbia College Chicago. She teaches, writes in Chicago, where she is Literary Editor of Newcity.

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Toni Nealie

Jan 22, 2017

Sunday Rumpus Poetry: Four Poems Celebrating Gwendolyn Brooks’s Centennial
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Toni Nealie

Mar 27, 2016

The Sunday Rumpus Essay: On Theft

Maybe this is what compelled Stella to plunder goods without paying. Her mother had been taken, her heart song snatched away. The stealing became her mourning.
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Toni Nealie

Oct 25, 2015

The Sunday Rumpus Essay: The Displeasure of the Table

What strange hurts hide in the lettuce, the strawberries, the chicken, the melon, the spinach? What dark poisons may turn the eating violent?

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Toni Nealie

Sunday Rumpus Poetry: Four Poems Celebrating Gwendolyn Brooks’s Centennial

The Sunday Rumpus Essay: On Theft

The Sunday Rumpus Essay: The Displeasure of the Table