'What is the narrative function of fear? In the horror games / I watch but don't play, the protagonists are faceless. / Nameless. Meaning: until you are threatened, you are / nothing.'

From 'Tension Introduction' by Leslie Sainz for National Poetry Month.

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“I am grateful for the names of God / we are allowed to speak, and the hidden. // We didn’t intend to see them fucking among the trees, / as deer to me, in my particular way.” —Alisha Dietzman, “Love Poem by the Light of the Desert” Beacon Press changes.press/alisha-dietzma…

just further proof continental >>>>>> analytic

.Alisha Dietzman has a longstanding interest in transgressive art. Exploring its value made her think about pushing herself as a poet and writing poetry with an unsettling effect. Jay David Miller #NationalPoetryMonth buff.ly/43SMS5c

Apropos of nothing, it’s a great day to reread Adorno and Horkheimer on The Culture Industry: marxists.org/reference/arch…

cubist architecture in prague

During AWP 2024, I gave a talk on documentary poetry on a panel with Paisley Rekdal, Michael Leong, Joe Harrington, and Tara Ballard. The talk really became something of a poem. This is it: Dispatches from the Land of Erasure During a Genocide.

I was so honored to have made the shortlist; congratulations to Patrick James Errington!

Deeply excited to have these poems engaging with the work of Miroslav Tichý out in the world.

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I had a (genuinely) lovely time talking to Jay David Miller about my work (and some work that I love).

Our National Poetry Month poet for today is Alisha Dietzman Alisha Dietzman. sclsnj.org/national-poetr… Beacon Press. Follow us for another contemporary poet each weekday in April. #NationalPoetryMonth Academy of American Poets

I am a woman who learned during my 20s to periodically replace my toothbrush and wash my sheets from a man in his 20s; in exchange, I introduced him to obscure central and eastern European cinema and we need more representation of this kind of dynamic.

Rip Schopenhauer you would've loved this

Congratulations to the eight poets announced in the shortlist for the #PollardPoetryPrize . The prize is awarded annually by the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre for an outstanding debut collection of poetry in the English language. 📚 📚📚

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This means so much to me.

Lyn Hejinian, immortal poet (1941-2024)

Loving myself less and less each year 🍾

“a tiny, literal tractor discovers the surreal, // and it is a field that swims. / Everything is so delicate in this world, // I imagine God would be a spoon. / Even the infinite rendered a girl, snow.” —Alisha Dietzman, “Gosha Rubchinskiy x Timur Novikov” Beacon Press