Alicia Wright
@aliciawright.bsky.social
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
Heath Ledger the canary in our edgelord hellscape coal mine
October 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Heath Ledger the canary in our edgelord hellscape coal mine
Reposted by Alicia Wright
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?
October 27, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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?
The exemplary infantilization form: the reality show (particularly of alcoholic southerners screaming at and ogling each other) like millennial dolls in a dollhouse
October 10, 2025 at 2:16 AM
The exemplary infantilization form: the reality show (particularly of alcoholic southerners screaming at and ogling each other) like millennial dolls in a dollhouse
World-building obsession as a symptom of repressed imperial drive, it’s all they have
September 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
World-building obsession as a symptom of repressed imperial drive, it’s all they have
Reposted by Alicia Wright
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...
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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September 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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...
Reposted by Alicia Wright
YOU'RE CALLED BY THE SAME SOUND was reviewed in @southrevbooks.bsky.social ⬇️ @aliciawright.bsky.social is "a formidable researcher and terrifyingly well read" 🔥
"Through persona and personal recollection, Wright brings old life back into the firelight — sometimes with a nudge, sometimes at knifepoint."
YOU'RE CALLED BY THE SAME SOUND by Alicia Wright.
YOU'RE CALLED BY THE SAME SOUND by Alicia Wright.
Poetry Flowing from History in “You’re Called by the Same Sound”
A review of Alicia Wright’s August 2025 poetry collection “You’re Called by the Same Sound.”
southernreviewofbooks.com
September 3, 2025 at 8:08 PM
YOU'RE CALLED BY THE SAME SOUND was reviewed in @southrevbooks.bsky.social ⬇️ @aliciawright.bsky.social is "a formidable researcher and terrifyingly well read" 🔥
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
August 27, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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
How is there already a used copy of my book on Am*zon it’s been out for two weeks hahah
August 25, 2025 at 9:08 PM
How is there already a used copy of my book on Am*zon it’s been out for two weeks hahah
Honestly a sanatorium sounds really good to me right now, I know how that sounds
August 19, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Honestly a sanatorium sounds really good to me right now, I know how that sounds
At some point you become the hallucination of the ideology, of the text, that’s what we’re learning
August 15, 2025 at 9:12 PM
At some point you become the hallucination of the ideology, of the text, that’s what we’re learning
New adult literary criticism…some are already doing this but I’m calling the market category now
August 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
New adult literary criticism…some are already doing this but I’m calling the market category now
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Happy publication day to @aliciawright.bsky.social and YOU'RE CALLED BY THE SAME SOUND 🔥
August 12, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Happy publication day to @aliciawright.bsky.social and YOU'RE CALLED BY THE SAME SOUND 🔥
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
August 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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
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...
Christopher Spaide recommends new collections by Sasha Debevec-McKenney, Heather Christle, bruno darío and other poets.
Unimprovable Penis-Forward Poems and More! Seven Poetry Books to Read This August
A few years back, after I read with her in a group poetry reading, an acquaintance gave me a compliment I haven’t forgotten: “People laugh at your poems.” Well, I hoped it was a compliment. Maybe m…
buff.ly
August 3, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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...
Reposted by Alicia Wright
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...
August 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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...
I think we’re finally going to have to start using poetry for things beyond exemplarity
July 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I think we’re finally going to have to start using poetry for things beyond exemplarity
finished diss listening to moon pix
July 18, 2025 at 10:31 PM
finished diss listening to moon pix
Reposted by Alicia Wright
"Hot Blast Furnace," a poem from You're Called By The Same Sound by @aliciawright.bsky.social, online at Chicago Review:
www.chicagoreview.org/hot-blast-fu...
www.chicagoreview.org/hot-blast-fu...
Hot Blast Furnace
By Alicia Wright
www.chicagoreview.org
June 30, 2025 at 11:00 PM
"Hot Blast Furnace," a poem from You're Called By The Same Sound by @aliciawright.bsky.social, online at Chicago Review:
www.chicagoreview.org/hot-blast-fu...
www.chicagoreview.org/hot-blast-fu...
Honestly a relief to admit that I will never look right in leopard print, it just doesn't suit me, it's outside my gender though I respect it when it's done well
June 30, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Honestly a relief to admit that I will never look right in leopard print, it just doesn't suit me, it's outside my gender though I respect it when it's done well
My alarm went off this morning just as the book short film/trailer was about to begin in the theater in my dream. I was sitting next to a woman from my church growing up, an oft-overpowering first soprano, who was reassuring me...anyway, wish I knew how to make such a thing, a Decasia-like sequence
June 29, 2025 at 5:30 PM
My alarm went off this morning just as the book short film/trailer was about to begin in the theater in my dream. I was sitting next to a woman from my church growing up, an oft-overpowering first soprano, who was reassuring me...anyway, wish I knew how to make such a thing, a Decasia-like sequence
Like any good budding southern modernist, my childhood-published poem in the local newspaper contended with the burden and legacy of Poe's "The Raven"
June 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Like any good budding southern modernist, my childhood-published poem in the local newspaper contended with the burden and legacy of Poe's "The Raven"
Detail that's made today better is learning that along with Don DeLillo, I also share birthday with Copi
June 15, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Detail that's made today better is learning that along with Don DeLillo, I also share birthday with Copi
Grief note, one and a half years in: finally felt a much-missed flicker of functional attention.
June 12, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Grief note, one and a half years in: finally felt a much-missed flicker of functional attention.
Okay but also the best magazines are not at all necessarily the ones that are best funded
May 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Okay but also the best magazines are not at all necessarily the ones that are best funded
I think the fake/nonhuman content crisis makes the reliability and trustworthiness of editors, on a small scale (not massive platforms, which I do think are doomed), that much more critical—an editor-influencer avenue will open up when it comes to digital media or work that appears online.
May 27, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I think the fake/nonhuman content crisis makes the reliability and trustworthiness of editors, on a small scale (not massive platforms, which I do think are doomed), that much more critical—an editor-influencer avenue will open up when it comes to digital media or work that appears online.