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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Fall 2018 / Winter 2018

on The Journey by Miguel Collazo, translated by David Frye, with an introduction by...

By Diego Báez

on The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein

By Brianna Beehler

Inquiry and Imperative (on Johanna Skibsrud’s The Poetic Imperative: A Speculative Aesthetics and Alice...

By Julia Bloch

Harder and Better: The New Masculinity of Fatherhood Poetry (on Douglas Kearney’s Patter; Oliver...

By Emily Pérez

A Terror Felt Rather Than Seen

By Julie Iromuanya

“How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?”

By Virginia Jackson

on Suitor by Joshua Rivkin

By Hannah Baker Saltmarsh

on Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture by...

By Bradley Bazzle

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Spring 2021

Evidence

On My Therapist, Late in This Life

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

Influenza 1918

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

Jerry’s Dirt (essay)

Psittaciformes Forms, Self-Eating Forms

Collaborations, Water and Light (with an interview by Douglas Carlson)

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

on The Journey by Miguel Collazo, translated by David Frye, with an introduction by...

on The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein

Inquiry and Imperative (on Johanna Skibsrud’s The Poetic Imperative: A Speculative Aesthetics and Alice...

Harder and Better: The New Masculinity of Fatherhood Poetry (on Douglas Kearney’s Patter; Oliver...

A Terror Felt Rather Than Seen

“How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?”

on Suitor by Joshua Rivkin

on Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture by...

Spring 2021

Evidence

On My Therapist, Late in This Life

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

Influenza 1918

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

Jerry’s Dirt (essay)

Psittaciformes Forms, Self-Eating Forms

Collaborations, Water and Light (with an interview by Douglas Carlson)

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

on The Journey by Miguel Collazo, translated by David Frye, with an introduction by...

on The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein

Inquiry and Imperative (on Johanna Skibsrud’s The Poetic Imperative: A Speculative Aesthetics and Alice...

Harder and Better: The New Masculinity of Fatherhood Poetry (on Douglas Kearney’s Patter; Oliver...

A Terror Felt Rather Than Seen

“How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?”

on Suitor by Joshua Rivkin

on Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture by...

Spring 2021

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

Spring 2021

Winter 2020

Fall 2020

Summer 2020

Spring 2020

Winter 2019

Fall 2019

Summer 2019

Spring 2019

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