​Fiction Books by Joe Nasta
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Halve It
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​(Blue Forge Press, 2025)​​​​​​​​​​
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A pull tab. A motel. A bar back. A bridge.
In Halve It, Joe Nasta conjures a kaleidoscope of lives—aching, queer, tender, and sharp-edged. Each story crackles with the ache of longing and the heat of memory, binding strangers across time and geography through grief, sex, transformation, and desire. From roadside bars to Alaskan forests, from pool tables to flame-ringed clearings, this collection of Nasta’s best work lingers like a bruise you can’t help touching again.
What does it mean to split yourself—and survive the aftermath?
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Available in physical & digital formats
​Poetry Books by Joe Nasta
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(friendship poems)
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​(Voice Lux Press, 2025)​​​​​​​​​​
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A novel in verse about love, brotherhood, companionship, and life. Flip to a random poem when you need comfort, a sandwich, an apology, or bit of attention from American poetry's sweetest troublemaker.
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Available in digital format
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salt-water poems
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​(self-published, 2024)​​​​​
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Inspired by sea ballads, sailor yarns, and his time working as a Merchant Mariner, salt-water poems invites you to stare at the ocean with Joe Nasta and explore wonder, resilience, meaning-making, and self-discovery.
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Available in digital format
- blur (screenshot memories of platonic lust)
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​ (self-published, 2023)
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From the mountains of Western North Carolina to the shores of Lake Chapala in Mexico, blur catalogues, dissects, and reforms an American boyhood filled with longing, queerness, and special friendships. Watch the colors whirl and enjoy the ride as Nasta dives deep into masculinity and national identity.
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Available in digital format
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agony: love pomes
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​​(self-published, 2022)​​​​​​​​​​
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Originally released in zine format and as part of Joe Nasta's love poems in a bottle public art project in Seattle and the Bay area, California. In playful and sweet poems following the phases of the moon, agony tells a story of romantic infatuation, explores queer sexuality and care, and shows how we all grow through love and over time.
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Available in digital format
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I want you to feel ugly, too
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​(self-published, 2021)​​​​​​​​​​
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Power. Lust. Rage. I want you to feel ugly, too, Joe Nasta's debut book of poetry, pierces the veil between public and private, professional and inappropriate, functional and dysfunctional with zir conversational, lyrical, and unabashedly honest voice. Ze investigates masculinity, romance addiction, pop culture saturation, performance of sexuality, internet-bound bodies, and queerness before addressing the reader as the warped half of zir own mind: "Who do I want to be?/Who do I want to be?"
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Available in digital format
