Alicia Elkort

Alicia Elkort’s poetry has been published in AGNI, Arsenic Lobster, Elsewhere Lit, Heron Tree, Menacing Hedge, Rogue Agent, Stirring: A Literary Collection, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and many others. She was named a finalist for the Two Sylvias Press Wilder Series Book Prize in 2015. She lives in California and will go to great lengths for an honest cup of black tea and a cool breeze.

Alicia Elkort

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her breath became my breath — Alicia Elkort and Jennifer Givhan in conversation

The authors discuss their writing practice and the poems featured in our Winter 2017 issue: On collaboration: We met in an online class at UCLA. Our differing poems about girlhood wounds spoke deeply to one another. We kept in touch by email as we lived in different states. Over time we developed a bond, inspired […]

IN Winter 2017

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I found a bottle at the bottom of the ocean

Sealed with obsidian & red beryl I could see a child inside who dazzled the bottle beast & I was afraid to release her she was everything her breath became my breath her heart my heart, her voice— I broke the seal & we fell onto the sand blood and […]

IN Winter 2017

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Fall 2017

on Census by Jesse Ball

By Shannon Reed

on Loves You by Sarah Gambito

By Tamiko Beyer

on Make It Scream, Make It Burn: Essays by Leslie Jamison

By Maya Krishnan

on In the Lateness of the World by Carolyn Forché

By Floyd Collins

Etymology, Ecology, and Ecopoetics

By Tyrone Williams

“What Else Might Be Available”: Three Contemporary Lineages of the Poetry Pro...

By Nick Sturm

Post-Metamorphic: The Poetry of Modern Motherhood

By Emily Pérez

on Monsters I Have Been by Kenji C. Liu

By Muriel Leung

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The Woman, The Place, The Poet

Influenza 1918

Across the Rock

Writing the Immigrant Southern in the New New South

The Citizenship Question, or, The Actors of Dearborn

Jerry’s Dirt (essay)

The Longing of Men (fiction)

The Gay Horizon

“Be Unpredictable, Be Real, Be Interesting, Tell a Good Story!” (with an interview...

A Lower Deep

“What I Find Funny Is Too Dark to Say Out Loud” (with an interview by C. J. Bartunek)

“A Starting Point” (with an introduction by Katie Geha)

“As Complicated and Elusive as Reality”: María Berrio’s Many-Layered Collages (wit...

Conjuring the Past: Cy Gavin’s Bermuda Paintings

on Census by Jesse Ball

on Loves You by Sarah Gambito

on Make It Scream, Make It Burn: Essays by Leslie Jamison

on In the Lateness of the World by Carolyn Forché

Etymology, Ecology, and Ecopoetics

“What Else Might Be Available”: Three Contemporary Lineages of the Poetry Pro...

Post-Metamorphic: The Poetry of Modern Motherhood

on Monsters I Have Been by Kenji C. Liu

The Woman, The Place, The Poet

Influenza 1918

Across the Rock

Writing the Immigrant Southern in the New New South

The Citizenship Question, or, The Actors of Dearborn

Jerry’s Dirt (essay)

The Longing of Men (fiction)

The Gay Horizon

“Be Unpredictable, Be Real, Be Interesting, Tell a Good Story!” (with an interview...

A Lower Deep

“What I Find Funny Is Too Dark to Say Out Loud” (with an interview by C. J. Bartunek)

“A Starting Point” (with an introduction by Katie Geha)

“As Complicated and Elusive as Reality”: María Berrio’s Many-Layered Collages (wit...

Conjuring the Past: Cy Gavin’s Bermuda Paintings

on Census by Jesse Ball

on Loves You by Sarah Gambito

on Make It Scream, Make It Burn: Essays by Leslie Jamison

on In the Lateness of the World by Carolyn Forché

Etymology, Ecology, and Ecopoetics

“What Else Might Be Available”: Three Contemporary Lineages of the Poetry Pro...

Post-Metamorphic: The Poetry of Modern Motherhood

on Monsters I Have Been by Kenji C. Liu

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Spring 2020

Winter 2019

Fall 2019

Summer 2019

Spring 2019

Fall 2018 / Winter 2018

Summer 2018

Spring 2018

Winter 2017

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