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Lucy Alford @lucyalford.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Charlottesville! I’m thrilled to be reading from my new book, Daylight/Savings, in conversation with the incomparable Lisa Russ Spaar. A dream come true! I’d love to see you there. New Dominion Bookshop, Saturday September 12, 7-8pm.

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Lucy Alford @lucyalford.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

If you’re in or around Charlottesville, Va on September 12, please join me at New Dominion Bookshop! Honored to be sharing poems in conversation with the incomparable Lisa Russ Spaar, my former teacher and forever inspiration. ✨ ndbookshop.com/events/lucy-...

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Lucy Alford: Daylight / Savings – in Conversation with Lisa Russ Spaar – New Dominion Bookshop

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Lucy Alford @lucyalford.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Excited to be at Cornell for a couple days (6/15-18) talking about poetry and the pulse (hearts and heartbeats) with these extraordinary people—If you’re in town, I’d love to see you! ✨

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Lucy Alford @lucyalford.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Joy Harjo, “Break My Heart” voetica.com/poem/15451

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Voetica Poetry Spoken

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Lucy Alford @lucyalford.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

In Richmond Va next weekend? Please join me at Quarry on Sunday, June 7, for a creative workshop in practices of attention, ways of noticing, and playing with words. Workshop 4:00-5:00ish ($15) followed by a reading (free & open) 5:30-6. Would love to see you! ✨ www.quarryrva.com/product/poet...

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Poetry and the Practice of Attention w/ Visiting Poet Lucy Alford [Sunday, June 7th, 4-6pm] | Quarry

Join poet Lucy Alford for a generative poetry workshop AND a reading from her new book, Daylight / Savings!Workshop: 4-5pm(ish)Reading: 5:30-6pmLucy Alford is a professor of literature at Wake Forest ...

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Lucy Alford @lucyalford.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Parentheses and ellipses have always been my favorite marks of punctuation. There is more to say. So, maybe a book. Or just an aside or a long silence.

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Lucy Alford @lucyalford.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Strong cicada swoon Evening street lights come on hearing Hecht read more light. More light:

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Lucy Alford @lucyalford.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

(Am writing / making things / with humans most of the time, & on any apps less and less. I don’t make/find meanings or cultivate relationships here, but I’m not hard to find via email/phone/snail/in-person. If you msg me here, I won’t often see it. I drop readings and odd thoughts here sometimes ✨)

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Poets & Writers @pw.org · 04/07/2025

The Time Is Now to spark your writing! This week we recommend a classic book on poetic forms by Lucy Alford, and #PWWritingPrompts on summer dualities, materialists, and relationship dynamics. Read more: at.pw.org/TTIN

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Lucy Alford @lucyalford.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Arrived on Saturday—exactly in time for its name day. Deepest gratitude to John Yau and Black Square Editions and for the immense gifts of time, care, attention, and language offered by Michael Snediker, Juliana Spahr, and Michael Rutherglen. Welcome to the world, little book ✨

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Lucy Alford @lucyalford.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

May the lived & living world continue to break our hearts—over & over & over & over again. We are conditioned to believe ourselves to be armored, special, individual beings—a sad fiction. We grow into or relearn love (aliveness) through some interaction of grief, tenderness, time, and repetition.

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Lucy Alford @lucyalford.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

“For pare all of temporality to a single moment and awareness of the shadows that fall from one’s heels as one walks, distinguishing the self from its own image and that image from the difference of the ground, dwindles to nothing: ‘There is a Zone whose even Years No solstice interrupts— …’”

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Lucy Alford @lucyalford.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Realized I have not shared this here— Such an odd threshold, this small book I’ve worked on for longer than any other, flying from my worrying hands. Out in April from Black Square Editions. Godspeed, little one. With gratitude to so very very many.

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maniacally abstrack black @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 26/02/2026

"Ignorance is a cure for nothing." W.E.B. Du Bois

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Laura Kerr @sedserio.com · 21/02/2026

Six Voltas

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Lucy Alford @lucyalford.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

“Time flies, time is fleeting, but then there comes a moment when time, no longer nimble-footed, no longer winged, is for us to carry.” (Yiyun Li, Things in Nature Merely Grow, 68.)

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Lucy Alford @lucyalford.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

“…one day gone, three days gone, a week gone, three months gone. And the days, counted so closely, with all those hours and minutes for one to carry, feel simultaneously long and fleeting.” (Yiyun Li, Things in Nature Merely Grow,” 69.)

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Lucy Alford @lucyalford.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

“Where can we live but days?” (Philip Larkin, “Days”)

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Lucy Alford @lucyalford.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

“in the chance of poetry to attend Imagination ‘s song” (Ed Roberson, from “echo echo etude,” Asked What Has Changed, p. 45)

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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Morris Graves / Fire, 1947

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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Morris Graves / Hibernating Animal, ca. 1954

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