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Alicia Wright

@aliciawright.bsky.social
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Poet, PhD, Editor @annulet.bsky.social, a literary journal and soon a small press // Managing Editor of The Iowa Review // Author of You're Called By The Same Sound (Thirdhand Books, August 2025) // Takes are mine, all mine

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Alicia Wright @aliciawright.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Sometimes when people address the Annulet team in a submission, I think "hello" in three different tones like in old-fashioned alien caricatures
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Annulet @annulet.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Annulet's "American Poetry and Poetics, 2008–2025" forum is calling and saying omg, please use this for an essay!
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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
This is such a valuable dataset on small press bestsellers, preserving nearly 20 years of SPD's history. So much diligent data curation here, pieced together from social media posts and web archives. Congrats to Sera-Ann Hargrove and @micahbateman.bsky.social on creating this important resource.
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Alicia Wright @aliciawright.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
The book and the horse probably have the most in common, historically speaking
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Annulet @annulet.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Annulet's Issue (11) is here, green and ready for ya, featuring new work from Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué, Gillian Conoley, Stefania Heim, Lee Trumpfheller, Noah Warren, Kamden Ishmael Hilliard, Hannah Piette, Wayne Koestenbaum and many more— annuletpoeticsjournal.com/Issue-11
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
This is really great, with many quotable portions, but I will just highlight "making the rejection of democracy sound like futurism" is such an elegant way to describe the what's going on.
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Alicia Wright @aliciawright.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I do enjoy how fast the "we publish edgy work that pushes social and political boundaries we're so fucked up" Hobartian mission statement of the post-woke online litmag wave has already become trite 'n' liberalized
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Alicia Wright @aliciawright.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Sending very belated notices for Annulet submissions from the weeks after my father's death in 2023, and only a handful of snide to shitty replies so far, nice
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I miss so much good stuff these days. I am somehow only just discovering this cluster on C. D. Wright, the best of the best (and you can, too!).
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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Keston Sutherland on Prynne in the eternally-riveting Glossator, which devoted an entire issue to Prynne as well as publishing his Tintern essay. glossator.org/wp-content/u...
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John Latta @lattaj.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
So long, J. H. Prynne (24 June 1936 – 22 April 2026). Oh, what an intent to name and delineate the things of the world with something like prudence, futile, names being such monsters of uncertainty. . . Out of _The White Stones_ (1969):
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Alicia Wright @aliciawright.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
One of my favorite poets working today
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The Iowa Review @theiowareview.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Our next recommendation has been unlocked! Here’s Managing Editor Alicia Wright’s fiction recommendation—what will her nonfiction favorite be? Donate any amount at 1dayforiowa.org/tir26 by midnight to find out—! #1DayforIowa
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The Iowa Review @theiowareview.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Your #1DayForIowa donations have real impact. Through your generosity, we can train more undergraduate interns and ensure that we can meet the rising costs of production. Thank you to all who’ve given so far today—less than 8 hours to go before they shut down the giving page at 1dayforiowa.org/tir26
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The Iowa Review @theiowareview.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Our #1DayForIowa donations are rolling in! Thank you to all our donors so far! Here’s a recommendation from our Managing Editor, Alicia Wright. Head to 1dayforiowa.org/tir26 to give to our campaign and unlock her other two favorites!
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The Iowa Review @theiowareview.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Happy #1DayForIowa! Staff will share a book recommendation for each donor to TIR via the University of Iowa's annual giving day. 1dayforiowa/org/tir26
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Alicia Wright @aliciawright.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Take my money/idea: Someone should write the screenplay and cast Adam Driver as John Donne in an A24 style Shakespeare in Love type situation
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Toby Altman @browatch.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Saturday!
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Alicia Wright @aliciawright.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
I had the opportunity to talk out (one might call it mouthing off, but demurely) my thoughts about my book and the literature of the U.S. South, and to open up (a little) about my poetics, writing process, and politics in response to these generous questions from Shane Chase of The Brooklyn Review.
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Interview | No Matter the Site or Scale: A Conversation with Alicia Wright
Interviewer: Shane Chase Introducing our new interview series, Process & Person. Writers’ communities are a strange breed. You might be meeting for the first time, nervous, maybe a little shy. …
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Alicia Wright @aliciawright.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
The ouroborus of conflict avoidance and absenteeism that afflicts a certain generational stripe of cultural worker
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Annulet @annulet.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Annulet returns with Issue (9) and (10), a double decker that features the first iteration of our open folio "American Poetry & Poetics, 2008–2025." So much is here for you to read. We're so happy to be back.
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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 18/02/2026
Join us tonight at 7 pm for a reading by Jake Fournier and conversation with @aliciawright.bsky.social !
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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
CALL FOR PITCHES @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience. We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not. Details below!
Close Reading Is For Everyone
Dan Sinykin and Johanna Winant

Call for Pitches

Based on our previous Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century, we are at work on a new version that’s shorter, slimmer, and aimed at a more general audience. 

We’re looking for a new set of contributors who would write excellent, brief, model close readings of texts that high schoolers might know and care about. Think: “The Gettysburg Address,” Macbeth, and Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” but also song lyrics, idioms, or even a visual image. What is your best, most instructive, most exciting, most welcoming example of how a close reading builds a real argument out from a tiny, perhaps overlooked detail?

If you’re interested in pitching us, please send us your 250-word close reading of the text you propose. Your close reading should be mappable using our vocabulary of close reading: the five steps of scene setting, noticing, local claiming, regional argumentation, and global theorizing. (Our close reading of “The Red Wheelbarrow” in the early pages of our introduction is the sort of thing we’re seeking.) If we think we can use yours, we’ll ask you to expand it to a 1,200 word essay in which you explain how your close reading works step by step.

We seek close readings both of texts that are canonical and also ones that aren’t. And so we invite contributors both from the discipline of literary studies, and other disciplines across the university, and the public humanities beyond it.  

Send your pitches—please include your name and contact info—to daniel.sinykin@emory.edu and jwinant@reed.edu by March 15.
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Alicia Wright @aliciawright.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Book maybe didn't make any lists, but I have truly been touched by the handful of kind emails about it this fall...a channel of poetry that heretofore I'd only read about, moving to move into
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Alicia Wright @aliciawright.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Before I “meet a voice” I personally prefer to “meet the mind” but little did I know how out of vogue this is
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Stephanie Burt @notquitehydepark.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
This is great. Maybe my favorite critical essay yet about C D Wright, in a cluster of good ones! @jenssread.bsky.social @post45.bsky.social post45.org/2025/11/cd-w...
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Relative Poetics: On C.D. Wright, Appropriation, and the Decentered Self – Post45
Winter outside of Providence; winter in northern lower Michigan. Light like a gnat crawling the walls of a milk-glass jar — between snow and cloud cover, the sun’s pale ricochets subdued. In a copy ro...
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Amish Trivedi @amishtrivedi.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Thanks to @aliciawright.bsky.social for all her hard work in getting this cluster together! What a joy to get to work with you! And thanks @franciscondine.bsky.social for all your editorial & technical work! The cluster looks beautiful! @atpost45.bsky.social post45.org/2025/11/c-d-...
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C.D. Wright: University Poet – Post45
Thinking on the work and career of the poet C.D. Wright, I return, in my own elliptical fashion, to two quotes (and one idea) from two writers who write about the nature of literary production at the ...
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Contemporaries at Post45 @atpost45.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
In her introduction, @aliciawright.bsky.social lays out the layers and constellations of influence, relation, and commonalities that shape the cluster’s engagements with C.D. Wright’s poetry, teaching, & thinking. post45.org/2025/11/intr...
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Introducing “C.D. Wright in Context” – Post45
The question I had when I began the process for this cluster, “C.D. Wright in Context,” at its heart had to do with influence, but not exclusively in the way that the poet herself is famous for it. I ...
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Contemporaries at Post45 @atpost45.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Ed. @aliciawright.bsky.social, fr. Carolyn Bergonzo, @amishtrivedi.bsky.social, Annie Bolotin, @notquitehydepark.bsky.social, @dr-b-i.bsky.social, @cspaide.bsky.social, @kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social, Olivia Milroy Evans, @flannelkate.bsky.social, @rvtrousdale.bsky.social, & @jenssread.bsky.social ! 🌟
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Contemporaries at Post45 @atpost45.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
✒️ 📔 Today's the day of our C.D. Wright cluster! Ed. @aliciawright.bsky.social ft. 11 contributors—the list is too long to fit into a single post! But you're in luck, bc the thread below tells the tale of this exceptional homage for an exceptionally talented poet! post45.org/contemporaries
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Contemporaries – Post45
Post45 seeks to reinvigorate the erstwhile convention of academic critics not only describing past traditions but also actively intervening in current tastes. It provides a forum for writers to conver...
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Contemporaries at Post45 @atpost45.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
The late, great CD Wright is going to be honored at Post45 Contemporaries with an incredible, moving, expansive cluster of essays edited by @aliciawright.bsky.social . We are SO excited for this cluster, and we’ll be debuting it this week. Stay tuned for these pieces!
Red tree flowers with frost and twigs
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Alicia Wright @aliciawright.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
TIR is a forever sweet spot
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Alicia Wright @aliciawright.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Heath Ledger the canary in our edgelord hellscape coal mine
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John Latta @lattaj.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Out of a somewhat fugitive magazine called Luigi Ten Co, edited by Whit Griffin and Michael Klausman, two early poems by Ronald Johnson, “sent [by the twenty-four year old] to Louis Zukofsky in early 1959 to which he generously responded with commentary and encouragement.” Uncollected in the works?
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Alicia Wright @aliciawright.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
The exemplary infantilization form: the reality show (particularly of alcoholic southerners screaming at and ogling each other) like millennial dolls in a dollhouse
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Alicia Wright @aliciawright.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
World-building obsession as a symptom of repressed imperial drive, it’s all they have
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Sarah Dowling @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Really, really interesting conversation about book reviews, the state of criticism today, etc—from a perspective that centers poetry & the renegade genres for discussing it. I really like this podcast! podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/i...
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Episode 25: Alicia Wright - “The Ecstatic State of Making the Point”
Podcast Episode · Index for Continuance · 2025-09-08 · 1h 21m
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Thirdhand Books @thirdhandbooks.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
YOU'RE CALLED BY THE SAME SOUND was reviewed in @southrevbooks.bsky.social ⬇️ @aliciawright.bsky.social is "a formidable researcher and terrifyingly well read" 🔥
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Alicia Wright @aliciawright.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
How long do we think the "too smart" tag will follow me (even though my poems are really pretty straightforward), is it forever or until I write things that satisfy "soft" criteria
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Alicia Wright @aliciawright.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
How is there already a used copy of my book on Am*zon it’s been out for two weeks hahah
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Alicia Wright @aliciawright.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Honestly a sanatorium sounds really good to me right now, I know how that sounds
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Alicia Wright @aliciawright.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
At some point you become the hallucination of the ideology, of the text, that’s what we’re learning
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Alicia Wright @aliciawright.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
New adult literary criticism…some are already doing this but I’m calling the market category now
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Thirdhand Books @thirdhandbooks.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Happy publication day to @aliciawright.bsky.social and YOU'RE CALLED BY THE SAME SOUND 🔥
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Alicia Wright @aliciawright.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
ffs more yapping about how poetry criticism is "bad" "today," like, sure, I guess it wld be an okay tho still misguided take if it weren't so obviously bad faith shibboleth complaint. Poetry criticism isn't a light saber, ya goofballs
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Alicia Wright @aliciawright.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
I'm in the "and other poets" part of this! Though sadly, not a single penis poem appears in my book...unless...wait...there might be...it depends...
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Thirdhand Books @thirdhandbooks.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
You're Called By The Same Sound by @aliciawright.bsky.social is one of seven poetry books to read this August in @literaryhub.bsky.social, alongside other new titles from Taylor Byas, Heather Christle, and Harryette Mullen 🔥 lithub.com/unimprovable...
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