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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IN Winter 2017

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on Defacing the Monument by Susan Briante

By Sandra Simonds

on My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland

By Julie R. Enszer

on Walking Backwards: Poems 1966–2016 by John Koethe

By Kevin Clark

on Children of the Land by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

By Diego Báez

on The Prime Anniversary by Jay Wright

By Michael Berlin

on Unsun by Andrew Zawacki

By Sueyeun Juliette Lee

on Frankissstein: A Love Story by Jeanette Winterson

By Julie Carlson

on Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia with Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Other Geniuses of...

By Jonathan Russell Clark

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Fall 2020

Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Childr...

College (translated from the Hindi by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and Sara Rai)

The Lonely Ruralist

The Woman, The Place, The Poet

Influenza 1918

Achilles; On Being Thrown from a Horse at 49; & Verge

Jerry’s Dirt (essay)

The Longing of Men (fiction)

Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Children’s Books...

Kaleidoscopic Consciousness

“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)

on Defacing the Monument by Susan Briante

on My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland

on Walking Backwards: Poems 1966–2016 by John Koethe

on Children of the Land by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

on The Prime Anniversary by Jay Wright

on Unsun by Andrew Zawacki

on Frankissstein: A Love Story by Jeanette Winterson

on Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia with Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Other Geniuses of...

Fall 2020

Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Childr...

College (translated from the Hindi by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and Sara Rai)

The Lonely Ruralist

The Woman, The Place, The Poet

Influenza 1918

Achilles; On Being Thrown from a Horse at 49; & Verge

Jerry’s Dirt (essay)

The Longing of Men (fiction)

Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Children’s Books...

Kaleidoscopic Consciousness

“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)

on Defacing the Monument by Susan Briante

on My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland

on Walking Backwards: Poems 1966–2016 by John Koethe

on Children of the Land by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

on The Prime Anniversary by Jay Wright

on Unsun by Andrew Zawacki

on Frankissstein: A Love Story by Jeanette Winterson

on Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia with Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Other Geniuses of...

Fall 2020

Alicia Elkort

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

I found a bottle at the bottom of the ocean

A Cornflower Paloma

Past Issues

Fall 2020

Summer 2020

Spring 2020

Winter 2019

Fall 2019

Summer 2019

Spring 2019

Fall 2018 / Winter 2018

Summer 2018

Spring 2018

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