Poet, professor, mama, redhead 🐯🐯🔥💥 THE CLEARING (Milkweed) 📚 Work @BestAmPo @PushcartPrize @Poetry_Daily, Kenyon Review, Threepenny, Waxwing.
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7 Nov 2019
Joy & gratitude beyond words. Thank you so much to @Milkweed_Books, to @ColeHenri, & to the team of readers who saw something in 'The Clearing'. And thank you, always thank you to Max Ritvo, whose work remains wild and alive.
7 Nov 2019
✨Poetry news!✨ THE CLEARING by Allison Adair (@fascicles) is the 3rd annual winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize!
Henri Cole calls the collection "lush" and "devastating," and it'll hit shelves in June 2020. 🎉 Congrats, Allison! milkweed.org/blog/allison-ad…
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20 Nov 2025
Enormous congratulations to @pswordwoman on winning this year's National Book Award for Poetry! And what a speech that was. 🥹 youtube.com/watch?v=ZxKMIbjd…
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12 Sep 2025
It's an honor to have GREAT DISASTERS (out this month from @Tin_House !) included in the Chicago Tribune's Fall Book Preview ❤️
Set in Chicago in the wake of 9/11, the book follows six friends as they navigate changing relationships to the country and one another. ✨
11 Sep 2025
Books for fall 2025: Luigi, Ozzy and the great beyond trib.al/pJInx0z
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7 Aug 2025
Brookline, MA, has a new poet laureate & it is @AMIGHTYBLAZE's own Allison Adair (!!!), aka @fascicles. You can read about this accomplishment below, but most scroll thru other Brookline news first. I think they buried the lede!!!
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8 May 2025
Only 2 more days till our Poetry International contest closes! $16/5 poems. You could win $1000!
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7 May 2025
SUBMIT YOUR WORK TODAY FOR THE SUMMER BLUE MOUNTAIN REVIEW: bluemountainreview.submittab… #submissions #getpublished
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30 Apr 2025
Kasamatsu Shiro
Cherry Blossoms at the Tôshôgû Shrine in Ueno
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13 Apr 2025
I never tire of this poem. Seamus Heaney, born on this day.
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10 Apr 2025
Evelyn Waugh’s writing advice to Merton:
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27 Mar 2025
Cambridge University Press calls for Meta to pay for the pirated books they've used for AI training.
"It’s essential that governments and authorities do not let big tech companies get away with taking authors’ work without permission. This reinforces the risks of inadequate regulation and legislation around AI and copyright, such as the ‘opt-out’ system proposed in the UK."
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5 Mar 2025
Today is the day, folks! One of my favorite-favorite writers, full stop.
7 Jun 2024
Excited to finally share the cover of my next poetry collection, SCORCHED EARTH! Pub date: March 4, 2025. Cover art by the incomparable Kara Walker. 8 years in the making! Pre-order link in my bio.
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2 Mar 2025
“POC” was targeted because they thought it meant “people of color.” It stood for “point of care” in medical emergencies: This Is the Research Ted Cruz Calls “Woke.” — ProPublica propublica.org/article/ted-c…
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26 Feb 2025
Arundhati Roy on writers as activists and commodities: youtube.com/watch?v=y2h5AlqY…
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19 Feb 2025
September 30, 2025.
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13 Feb 2025
feeling a moment of childlike joy upon receiving these finalist stickers in the mail—!
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13 Feb 2025
“The poem: a prolonged hesitation between sound and sense.”
- Paul Valery
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1 Feb 2025
C. S. Lewis, you just live
29 Jan 2025
genuinely how do u not descend into being a doomer about the current political climate
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24 Jan 2025
Meet the sleazy disaster capitalist firms descending like vultures onto the ruins of Gaza
24 Jan 2025
US firm hired to operate Gaza checkpoints exposed as shell company of ‘generational wealth management’ firm
Safe Reach Solutions is one of three firms reportedly contracted to inspect Palestinians as they return to their destroyed homes in northern Gaza
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23 Jan 2025
As if running my piece weren’t enough, they let me on to their podcast to mumble about it... Poor @TheTLS: the-tls.co.uk/regular-featur…
22 Jan 2025
I’m in @TheTLS today—alongside many worthier contributors, including @BlackerUilleam and @Bryan_S_K—with a piece on @thejulianevans’s remarkable new book about my hometown, Odesa. UNDEFEATABLE is the word. the-tls.co.uk/history/twenti…
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22 Jan 2025
Can't wait for this timely symposium at the @HutchinsCenter at @Harvard: "The Future of Hip Hop Studies" feat. H. Samy Alim, Regina Bradley, Adam Bradley, & Mark Anthony Neal w/ closing remarks from Tricia Rose.
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