Alicia Wright @aliciawright.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Sometimes when people address the Annulet team in a submission, I think "hello" in three different tones like in old-fashioned alien caricatures 070
Reposted by Alicia WrightAnnulet @annulet.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Annulet's "American Poetry and Poetics, 2008–2025" forum is calling and saying omg, please use this for an essay! 063
Reposted by Alicia WrightMelanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 09/07/2026This 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. 0279
Alicia Wright @aliciawright.bsky.social · 05/07/2026The book and the horse probably have the most in common, historically speaking 240
Reposted by Alicia WrightAnnulet @annulet.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Annulet'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-11 083
Reposted by Alicia WrightMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 26/06/2026This 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. 015653
Alicia Wright @aliciawright.bsky.social · 03/06/2026I 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 130
Alicia Wright @aliciawright.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Sending 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 050
Reposted by Alicia WrightRebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 14/05/2026I 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!). 2124
Reposted by Alicia WrightAlina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Keston 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...glossator.org 1166
Reposted by Alicia WrightJohn Latta @lattaj.bsky.social · 22/04/2026So 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): 0399
Reposted by Alicia WrightThe Iowa Review @theiowareview.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Our 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 041
Reposted by Alicia WrightThe Iowa Review @theiowareview.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Your #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 021
Reposted by Alicia WrightThe Iowa Review @theiowareview.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Our #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! 031
Reposted by Alicia WrightThe Iowa Review @theiowareview.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Happy #1DayForIowa! Staff will share a book recommendation for each donor to TIR via the University of Iowa's annual giving day. 1dayforiowa/org/tir26 022
Alicia Wright @aliciawright.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Take my money/idea: Someone should write the screenplay and cast Adam Driver as John Donne in an A24 style Shakespeare in Love type situation 150
Alicia Wright @aliciawright.bsky.social · 02/03/2026I 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.thebrooklynreview.comInterview | No Matter the Site or Scale: A Conversation with Alicia WrightInterviewer: 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. … 010
Alicia Wright @aliciawright.bsky.social · 21/02/2026The ouroborus of conflict avoidance and absenteeism that afflicts a certain generational stripe of cultural worker 100
Reposted by Alicia WrightAnnulet @annulet.bsky.social · 20/02/2026Annulet 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. 1145
Reposted by Alicia WrightPrairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 18/02/2026Join us tonight at 7 pm for a reading by Jake Fournier and conversation with @aliciawright.bsky.social ! 021
Reposted by Alicia WrightJohanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 09/02/2026CALL 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! 13237140
Alicia Wright @aliciawright.bsky.social · 30/12/2025Book 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 020
Alicia Wright @aliciawright.bsky.social · 12/12/2025Before I “meet a voice” I personally prefer to “meet the mind” but little did I know how out of vogue this is 010
Reposted by Alicia WrightStephanie Burt @notquitehydepark.bsky.social · 29/11/2025This 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...post45.orgRelative Poetics: On C.D. Wright, Appropriation, and the Decentered Self – Post45Winter 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... 1133
Reposted by Alicia WrightAmish Trivedi @amishtrivedi.bsky.social · 26/11/2025Thanks 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-...post45.orgC.D. Wright: University Poet – Post45Thinking 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 ... 2135
Reposted by Alicia WrightContemporaries at Post45 @atpost45.bsky.social · 26/11/2025In 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...post45.orgIntroducing “C.D. Wright in Context” – Post45The 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 ... 191
Reposted by Alicia WrightContemporaries at Post45 @atpost45.bsky.social · 26/11/2025Ed. @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 ! 🌟 172
Reposted by Alicia WrightContemporaries 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/contemporariespost45.orgContemporaries – Post45Post45 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... 1239
Reposted by Alicia WrightContemporaries at Post45 @atpost45.bsky.social · 24/11/2025The 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! 0112
Alicia Wright @aliciawright.bsky.social · 27/10/2025Heath Ledger the canary in our edgelord hellscape coal mine 020
Reposted by Alicia WrightJohn Latta @lattaj.bsky.social · 27/10/2025Out 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? 2234
Alicia Wright @aliciawright.bsky.social · 10/10/2025The exemplary infantilization form: the reality show (particularly of alcoholic southerners screaming at and ogling each other) like millennial dolls in a dollhouse 020
Alicia Wright @aliciawright.bsky.social · 26/09/2025World-building obsession as a symptom of repressed imperial drive, it’s all they have 110
Reposted by Alicia WrightSarah Dowling @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Really, 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...podcasts.apple.comEpisode 25: Alicia Wright - “The Ecstatic State of Making the Point”Podcast Episode · Index for Continuance · 2025-09-08 · 1h 21m 031
Reposted by Alicia WrightThirdhand Books @thirdhandbooks.bsky.social · 03/09/2025YOU'RE CALLED BY THE SAME SOUND was reviewed in @southrevbooks.bsky.social ⬇️ @aliciawright.bsky.social is "a formidable researcher and terrifyingly well read" 🔥 031
Alicia Wright @aliciawright.bsky.social · 27/08/2025How 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 220
Alicia Wright @aliciawright.bsky.social · 25/08/2025How is there already a used copy of my book on Am*zon it’s been out for two weeks hahah 120
Alicia Wright @aliciawright.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Honestly a sanatorium sounds really good to me right now, I know how that sounds 141
Alicia Wright @aliciawright.bsky.social · 15/08/2025At some point you become the hallucination of the ideology, of the text, that’s what we’re learning 020
Alicia Wright @aliciawright.bsky.social · 15/08/2025New adult literary criticism…some are already doing this but I’m calling the market category now 120
Reposted by Alicia WrightThirdhand Books @thirdhandbooks.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Happy publication day to @aliciawright.bsky.social and YOU'RE CALLED BY THE SAME SOUND 🔥 152
Alicia Wright @aliciawright.bsky.social · 09/08/2025ffs 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 020
Alicia Wright @aliciawright.bsky.social · 03/08/2025I'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... 020
Reposted by Alicia WrightThirdhand Books @thirdhandbooks.bsky.social · 03/08/2025You'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... 093