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eva alter
@evaalterpoet.bsky.social
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my brain is a forest my poems are maps that index encrypt & resurrect
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working on my personal poetics statement for my website—soon!
About In Eva Alter's world, the mind is an archive and personal history constitutes a system of recursive myths. Drawing from biblical cadence, clinical language, and glitch aesthetics, she builds poems like catalog entries—sites of witness, reclassification, and/or protective erasure. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Blood+Honey, Eulogy Press, Bottlecap Press, Maudlin House, wildscape. literary journal, Wild Roof Journal, scaffold literary magazine, Don't Submit, Citywide Lunch, The Closed Eye Open, and lmnl spcs mag. About Eva Eva Alter is a poet and cataloger of internal mythologies—her work inhabits the boundaries between identity, memory, and language. She views the mind as an archive and makes sense of survival through recursive syntax. Drawing from biblical cadence, psychiatric vocabulary, myth, glitch aesthetics, and information science, she constructs poems as sites of witness, reclassification, and protective erasure. In Eva Alter's world, trauma doesn't unfold linearly. It loops, distorts, and refracts. Her poems resist standard confession in favor of structural architecture—they index, encrypt, and resurrect.
April 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
evaalterpoet.bsky.social
3 years ago, during a dark night of the soul, I wrote this story about self-punishment, obsession, and dissociation. So happy to see it out in the world. Truly couldn't have found a better home for it than Citywide Lunch.

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“Soma Sema” by Eva Alter.
November 1st It’s November and so it’s my Lent.  As the microwave clock hits midnight, I watch wine drip from the glass in my hand onto the ground as if I’m standing fifteen feet away. I squin…
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April 7, 2025 at 4:19 AM
evaalterpoet.bsky.social
one of my pieces was accepted by scaffold omfg??????
March 30, 2025 at 1:52 PM
evaalterpoet.bsky.social
@rustandmoth.bsky.social hi! Your bio says you're open for submissions until March 31st, but your website says March 21st. I wanted to check if I can still submit or if I need to wait until June! Thanks!
March 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
evaalterpoet.bsky.social
twin poems

"Passenger" in @maudlinhouse.bsky.social (maudlinhouse.net/passenger/)

"Kismet" in Eulogy Press
(www.eulogy.press/kismet)
Passenger by Eva Alter At fourteen, acutely and newly voiceless I became preoccupied with the basking shark. From an animal family typecast as vicious and soulless and yet itself chiefly passive, it is a creature of pilgrimage, traveling far and slow with the brackish seasons and tides. How analeptic, I thought, to drift from place to place without affliction or care. At fourteen, the basking shark’s liminal, perpetual fate as a simple tourist on this Earth, its life predetermined as transient, stirred my jealousy and fascination. Enduring what felt at that age like limitless suffering, I imagined myself drifting in the vast seawater for eternity, thoughts aimless and opaque, so close to oblivion— yet still entirely corporeal and spirited. Little to think about, little to harm me. Just that endless and boundless ocean. Open and certain as a void. Kismet by Eva Alter “because a woman’s body is a grave;” Dedication to Hunger, Louise Glück I learned how to do it at fourteen, that brutal undoing of desire— a violent purification ritual, my own; to rid myself of my person, temporarily yet entirely [to rid myself of my soul’s detritus] that porcelain door going nowhere but down down down. I knew I was septic. Knew my skin had been made into rot [knew I had to bear it anyway] and decided to barter my fate sacrificing myself to that chasm of dreck. Once became dozens became thousands each time an unwitting move in some cosmic chess match against God’s magistrate; total expiration the loser’s reward.
March 29, 2025 at 2:53 PM