Alex(ander) Gast
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Alex(ander) Gast
@alexgast.bsky.social
Queer poet, "queer" meaning both "odd" and "gay." Senior studying creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Former Firehouse Subs employee; neither substandard nor exceptional at the art of sandwich-making.
Short(ish!) Poem Sunday: "Averting the Gaze," by Benjamin Garcia. from Thrown in the Throat, 2020. Also found here: mistakehouse.org/article/mist...

"people don't stop being people / like the iis at the end of Pompeii"
January 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Heather Christle. From POETRY, October 2013.
"It is that you want / to be in the snow / without having touched it".
December 24, 2024 at 6:11 PM
Short Poem Sunday! Here's "In a Field, at Sunset" by Carl Phillips, from his 2023 Pulitzer-winning book, 'Then the War.' One of my favorite short poems ever.
December 22, 2024 at 9:24 PM
found this lovely recording of Tom Hiddleston reading T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and it is phenomenal! ...though i am intrigued / disturbed by the creative choice to put the recording over an uncomfortably close pic of Hiddleston's eyes. this is how Frodo looks at The Ring:
December 11, 2024 at 9:46 PM