Museum of the Sun, by Nikki Corina

Poetry, chapbook, 32 pages, from Bottlecap Features. Each piece is a room and each image is a relic glowing with intimacy, history, and desire. Museum of the Sun is a luminous curation of poetry as one may curate art. Drawing inspiration from masterworks of painting, literature, music, and myth, Nikki Corina reimagines the museum as a living body where love, memory, and longing are preserved. Through spare and lyrical precision, the poems invite the readers to linger in moments that feel timeless and urgently alive. Structured largely through haiku, the collection distills vast emotional landscapes and resonant encounters, rewarding close reading while remaining accessible and immersive. The use of ekphrasis brings familiar cultural touchstones that are refracted through deeply personal experience, creating a dialogue between art and the self. Those who savor beauty with a blooming desire to bridge art and philosophy with romance will find Museum of the Sun as an invitation to recognize how art and love illuminate one another long after the light has shifted. Nikki Corina is a poet and an MFA graduate of Antioch University Los Angeles. She is the author of Coffined and Essayer of the Ego published by Barnes and Noble Press. Her recent work has been featured in Routledge, L.A. Zine Fest, Sims Library of Poetry, Los Angeles Poet Society, and Pile Press, among others.