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poet / translator / author of I Have Never Been Able to Sing (@udpbooks) / Things I Have Made a Fiction (@oversoundpoetry) / honorary water sign / 🍉

New York, NY
Joined March 2014
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After many years 18 Owls is returning with 4 new broadsides -- poems from Benjamin Krusling (@blk_blk_blk_blk), Brandon Brown, Emily Hunt, and Sawako Nakayasu (@sawakonakayasu) are now available, designed by Kit Schluter (@dedreytnien)🦉💐 18owlspress.com/
Happy to say I'm starting this little broadside press called 18 Owls Press 🦉18owlspress.com/. First poem is Sawako Nakayasu's Battery
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2 parents sitting in their cars alone watching the sunset in an empty parking lot 🌅
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“Being friends with him was like entering a magic circle… It was not just that he made those in his circle feel special; if his writing is any one single thing, it is an invitation to join him in refusing to die.” Juliana ❤️ thenation.com/article/societ…
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"children younger than 40"
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a new poem and an older one in Long News Poetry longnews.net/issue-1/alexis-…
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Alexis Almeida retweeted
"Skillfully translated by Almeida, Iannamico’s debut volume is sweet and serious by turns...Readers will be won over by this charming collection." — @PublishersWkly's review of Roberta Iannamico's MANY POEMS, translated by Alexis Almeida publishersweekly.com/9798987…
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does anyone know where i can watch Jumana Manna's Foragers online?
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or do you have it and can you send it to me
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Alexis Almeida retweeted
February 12 Winter turkey #birdcpp
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all my author photos are selfies with headphones
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Out late Spring 25 from the great @uglyducklingprs. Drop a line if you would like an e-galley. I really hope this one travels — for our everlasting bruno ❤️
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“thank you for choosing Amtrak” no problem there are no other trains
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Alexis Almeida retweeted
We're very excited to announce our newest chapbook--EMPATHY by Asha Futterman--available now! the-song-cave.com
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worst and best feeling
just accidentally closed a tab i've had been meaning to read for the past 2 years
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Such restlessness
said like that
in a deep
but quiet voice
that’s how I want to start a poem
about the wind
blowing on the grass
not about me. at @lithub, wonderful work from a fascinating poet, translated by thee genius @roadrunnerroadr
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reading tonight at Molasses :)
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“Let’s try to do it by myself” - Ash
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come to @WendysSubway tonight to celebrate Roberta’s book! @thesongcave
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