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Alexis David @AlexisLDavid
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I am stealing Elizabeth O'Rourke's gorgeous structure and skillful enjambment in her beautiful poem, "I Have Done Small Things" :: "have closed up/the tear where the down spilled out of my daughter’s winter coat" merliterary.com/2023/06/05/e… @MERliterary

Elizabeth O'Rourke - Poetry - MER - Mom Egg Review

Elizabeth O’Rourke I Have Done Small Things   today: have threaded the needle’s eye with the current favorite seafoam spool, have closed up the tear where the down spilled out of my daughter’s winter...

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I'm reading this essay, from Mom Egg Review, with my four-week-old infant wrapped to my chest. "How when I’m alone the silence is nearly frightening." Myth of Motherhood Poetics by Jennifer Givhan merliterary.com/2017/11/12/m…

Myth of Motherhood Poetics by Jennifer Givhan - MER - Mom Egg Review

My children make myths in the games they play. My daughter holds out a book of fairy tales and she and her friend become princesses lost in Pennsylvania (I have no idea why that state—it’s not in the...

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@MERliterary thank you for publishing this. It's deliciously complicated and beautiful. What a satisfying read this morning.
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My review of Eileen Cleary's strange and gorgeous book of poems, "2 a.m. with Keats" came out with Tupelo Quarterly! tupeloquarterly.com/reviews/… @QuarterlyTupelo @cleary_eileen
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My review of Shilo Niziolek's ghostly and beautiful memoir came out today with Compulsive Reader: compulsivereader.com/2023/01…
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"Because I cannot touch you, I smell the insides of my hands. The smell is an egg, just cracked." from Sara Elkamel's gorgeous poem. Oh! The water imagery paired with death, the structure, the slow climb to the last line...@salthilljournal @SaraFarag salthilljournal.net/elkamel-…

The Choreography of Grief - Sara Elkamel — Salt Hill Journal

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Happy to see my review of Jackie Wang's "The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void" on North of Oxford: northofoxford.wordpress.com/… @LoneberryWang

alexis David – North of Oxford

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I very much enjoyed this review by Mindy Kronenberg of Allison Blevin's "Slowly/Suddenly" and just requested it from my library. "I’ve eaten your heart. I’ve eaten myself eating your heart. Don’t worry. I gather your tears and eat those too." -Blevins merliterary.com/2022/09/27/s…

Slowly/Suddenly by Allison Blevins - MER - Mom Egg Review

Review by Mindy Kronenberg   In an interview in Literary Mama this past spring with editor Christina Consolino, Allison Blevins shared “As a mom, I have to sneak in moments to write. I write while...

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Aubade means a morning love song. I love this skillful enjambment and melodic symphony of words in "Aubade with Hope" by @flourish_joshua palettepoetry.com/2022/06/26… @PalettePoetry

Aubade with Hope - Palette Poetry

"River, river-- / lift up your roaring tongue to heaven, / swear you do not have my mother / in your belly."

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I inhaled Cheryl Klein's suspenseful memoir. As someone navigating both adoption and infertility, it felt like she was writing parts of my own life. Read my review here: compulsivereader.com/2022/07… @cherylekleinLA @brownpaperpress
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This poem is a beautiful, brutal force. Isha Camara's reading of it is gorgeous: muzzlemagazine.com/isha-cama… @isathepoet @MuzzleMagazine
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Just discovered Deborah Landau. “Skeleton” and “Flesh” bruise me, unbalance me, reposition me and scare me. Wow. newyorker.com/magazine/2022/… via @NewYorker

“Skeleton” and “Flesh”

Two poems by Deborah Landau.

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This is a personal essay (possibly a lyric essay) I wrote about my dad. So happy to have it published in 805 Lit and Art!
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19 Jun 2022
“The cat tails loft upward, moving in the breeze. This is a place of light, where we are made of light, where we float on water. Sun makes our skin taste salty.” Read @alexisldavid Alexis David’s essay “We Talk About the Wind" w/ art by Rebecca Ward. 805lit.org/post/we-talk-abou…
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“The cat tails loft upward, moving in the breeze. This is a place of light, where we are made of light, where we float on water. Sun makes our skin taste salty.” Read @alexisldavid Alexis David’s essay “We Talk About the Wind" w/ art by Rebecca Ward. 805lit.org/post/we-talk-abou…

We Talk about the Wind, by Alexis David

The cat tails loft upward, moving in the breeze. This a place of light, where we are made of light, where we float on water.

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Feel like reading poems about sad and beautiful wonder? Here's my review of Lawrence Raab's book "April at the Ruins" @tupelopress compulsivereader.com/2022/06…
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Love this poem by Emma Bolden. It hits me with a brick over the head and then heals me better than before. I’m Building a House poetrycurrency.com/poem/emma…

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@emmabo thank you for this.
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So happy to see my review of Corey Van Landingham's book of poems, "Love Letter to Who Owns the Heavens" come out with North of Oxford! northofoxford.wordpress.com/… @tupelopress
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Just read Emily Leithauser's poem "Cardiac Flicker." newyorker.com/magazine/2022/… Her lyric decisions give a beautifully blunt tone about the trauma of miscarriage and allow the poem to have a controlled yet fiery force. Just asked my library to buy her book. @emilyleithauser

“Cardiac Flicker”

“Tomorrow will be eight weeks since I lost you (slightly longer / than I knew you).”

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