Alessandra Bava
@alessandrabava.bsky.social
Poet provocateur™, short fiction writer, translator & collagist ✂️. | Editor of poetry series HerKind (Ensemble). | Diane Seuss's Italian translator | WIP: Writing SF Poet Laureate Jack Hirschman's bio. | she/her
November 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
In honor of Patricia Smith, today's poem (#119 for the record) is the opening poem from her National Book Award for Poetry's winning collection, The Intentions of Thunder: "What's it's Like to Be a Black Girl (For Those of You Who Aren't)." Such a powerful poem.
November 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
In honor of Patricia Smith, today's poem (#119 for the record) is the opening poem from her National Book Award for Poetry's winning collection, The Intentions of Thunder: "What's it's Like to Be a Black Girl (For Those of You Who Aren't)." Such a powerful poem.
Congratulations to Patricia Smith on winning the National Book Award for Poetry. So deserved!
In 2018 I had the pleasure of translating three of her poems in an Anthology I edited. I am truly thrilled.
The Anthology also included the future Pulitzer prize winners Diane Seuss and Natalie Diaz. ❤️
In 2018 I had the pleasure of translating three of her poems in an Anthology I edited. I am truly thrilled.
The Anthology also included the future Pulitzer prize winners Diane Seuss and Natalie Diaz. ❤️
November 20, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Congratulations to Patricia Smith on winning the National Book Award for Poetry. So deserved!
In 2018 I had the pleasure of translating three of her poems in an Anthology I edited. I am truly thrilled.
The Anthology also included the future Pulitzer prize winners Diane Seuss and Natalie Diaz. ❤️
In 2018 I had the pleasure of translating three of her poems in an Anthology I edited. I am truly thrilled.
The Anthology also included the future Pulitzer prize winners Diane Seuss and Natalie Diaz. ❤️
Today's poem, #115, is "Gallarus Oratory" by Seamus #Heaney. Many years ago I spent 3 weeks traveling troughout Ireland and this place, a stonework built by ancient masons, became an obsession. 25+ years later I wrote a poem, today, inspired by this very place.
November 17, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Today's poem, #115, is "Gallarus Oratory" by Seamus #Heaney. Many years ago I spent 3 weeks traveling troughout Ireland and this place, a stonework built by ancient masons, became an obsession. 25+ years later I wrote a poem, today, inspired by this very place.
I have lit my lantern. Seek your inner light, today. Winter is coming. Happy #Martinmas.
November 11, 2025 at 8:26 AM
I have lit my lantern. Seek your inner light, today. Winter is coming. Happy #Martinmas.
Arthur Rimbaud (20 Oct. 1854 - 10 Nov. 1891)
November 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Arthur Rimbaud (20 Oct. 1854 - 10 Nov. 1891)
Five years without our beautiful, beloved Ghibli. 💔
November 2, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Five years without our beautiful, beloved Ghibli. 💔
Aidan Turner as Valmont, Lesley Manville as the Marquise de Merteuil. Coming next year at the National Theatre. To die for!
November 2, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Aidan Turner as Valmont, Lesley Manville as the Marquise de Merteuil. Coming next year at the National Theatre. To die for!
I was rewatching "Dangerous Liasons" again last night and fell in love again with those extraordinary costumes.
November 2, 2025 at 8:47 AM
I was rewatching "Dangerous Liasons" again last night and fell in love again with those extraordinary costumes.
I am about to write my 100th poem of the year! A challenge begun last July together with @jcsmith0919.bsky.social. I am drawing inspiration by ORLAM by P.J. Harvey, a book she wrote in Dorset dialect and retranslated into English.
November 2, 2025 at 8:44 AM
I am about to write my 100th poem of the year! A challenge begun last July together with @jcsmith0919.bsky.social. I am drawing inspiration by ORLAM by P.J. Harvey, a book she wrote in Dorset dialect and retranslated into English.
October 29, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Poem 96 is Jeannine Hall Gailey's "Cassandra as Climate Scientist." Just wrote my daily poet inspired by this, I hope you'll be inspired to write one too.
October 29, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Poem 96 is Jeannine Hall Gailey's "Cassandra as Climate Scientist." Just wrote my daily poet inspired by this, I hope you'll be inspired to write one too.
Mimmo Jodice (1934-2025).
October 29, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Mimmo Jodice (1934-2025).
Two icons were born today. #DylanThomas #SylviaPlath
October 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Two icons were born today. #DylanThomas #SylviaPlath
The atmospheres of this book remind me some decadent poems by @dseuss.bsky.social, such as "Long long ago I used to smoke in bed." The Doll's Alphabet by Camilla #Grudova is such a treat. Not to mention the cover.
October 27, 2025 at 1:13 PM
The atmospheres of this book remind me some decadent poems by @dseuss.bsky.social, such as "Long long ago I used to smoke in bed." The Doll's Alphabet by Camilla #Grudova is such a treat. Not to mention the cover.
Artwork by Amy Friend.
October 23, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Artwork by Amy Friend.
For poem #90 I picked an ekphrastic poem by Victoria Chang inspired by Edward Hopper. Read the poem at the link here below. ⬇️
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
October 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM
For poem #90 I picked an ekphrastic poem by Victoria Chang inspired by Edward Hopper. Read the poem at the link here below. ⬇️
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
So glad that Lázló #Krasznahorkai won the #Nobel Prize for Literature. I read his The Melancholy of Resistance during lockdown. It changed me. His work is enlightening.
October 10, 2025 at 7:07 AM
So glad that Lázló #Krasznahorkai won the #Nobel Prize for Literature. I read his The Melancholy of Resistance during lockdown. It changed me. His work is enlightening.
Posting a poem by Wisława Szymborska, who was also an amazing collagist. #poem72 #amwriting
October 6, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Posting a poem by Wisława Szymborska, who was also an amazing collagist. #poem72 #amwriting
Poem 71 is Ingeborg Bachmann's "Every Day." About to write my poem. Bachmann (1926-1973) was a phenomenal Austrian poet. Paul Celan was one of her brief and intense loves. We saw an exhibition on her life and her works at Goethe's House last August.
October 5, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Poem 71 is Ingeborg Bachmann's "Every Day." About to write my poem. Bachmann (1926-1973) was a phenomenal Austrian poet. Paul Celan was one of her brief and intense loves. We saw an exhibition on her life and her works at Goethe's House last August.