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Alex Rieser
@alexrieser.bsky.social
SoCal based Poet. MFA @USF, Dr. @UCSD. Writing from outside of the academy.

Book: Emancipator (New Fraktur Press). He/him/Dr
Backyard pomegranate harvest. I’m not sure when to pick them because any more ripe than this and the birds get to them first.
September 12, 2023 at 12:08 AM
Me after reading the entirety of Pound’s Cantos
September 6, 2023 at 2:14 PM
I know the writers probably don't care about this but I have to say I am PUMPED to get to go to Denver this week to see Anu Sharma, THE Anu Sharma speak in person at #Osseo2023 about the neurophysiology of hearing and OTC amplification.
September 5, 2023 at 4:06 PM
ThriftBooks free book award well used imo
September 4, 2023 at 2:09 PM
Me to the 706 day submission still in ‘received’ status: “they’ll get back to me any day now.”
September 3, 2023 at 5:44 PM
This banger by Ida Stewart in FIELD 84, spring 2012, has been one of my favorites for years.
August 31, 2023 at 3:38 AM
Hey clouds will you shove off for a bit so I can spot this super moon.
August 31, 2023 at 3:25 AM
This week in hard-hitting commas Carl Philips fills us like persuasion.
August 30, 2023 at 1:08 AM
I would be annoyed that the English canon contains so many books by and about stuffy rich people if they weren’t so damn funny.
August 28, 2023 at 10:39 PM
Apparently modern broadcasters can get away with all kinds of things which would have been grounds for license removal in 1968
August 28, 2023 at 12:53 PM
10 minutes ago I told my eight year old that there used to be a workout series called “buns of steel” and he is still laughing.
August 24, 2023 at 1:31 AM
Louise Gluck knows her Pushkin
August 23, 2023 at 7:27 PM
@patrickhwillems.bsky.social

What do I win haha
August 23, 2023 at 7:25 PM
This was an amazing press that shut down in 2017 but published a hundred quality chapbooks online first: https://beardofbees.com/publications.html
August 22, 2023 at 2:27 AM
Two very quiet moments contrasted by an orchestra of rhymes in this poem by Dorothea Grossman
August 22, 2023 at 2:25 AM
“frequently uses words that when looked up have no meaning”

Guessing the fantasy book based on its one star reviews is hilarious.

https://bookriot.com/fantasy-books-one-star-reviews-quiz/
August 22, 2023 at 1:00 AM
Rosalind Krauss on the abode of a deceased Pablo Picasso:
August 20, 2023 at 6:30 PM
Sitting in hurricane Hillary’s concerning rain, reading mid-branching sentences about Hillary’s concerned Americans, actually makes for a great morning.
August 20, 2023 at 4:08 PM
Overheard on a CA coffee shop this morning:
“How are you preparing for hurricane Hillary?”

“Idk… wear board shorts?”
August 19, 2023 at 7:40 PM
This beautiful poem from Megan Fernandez from her collection “I do everything I’m told”
August 18, 2023 at 11:02 PM
Check out my prose poem “Alluvial Deposition” from my latest collection (that is looking for a home) in Imposter Journal issue 3.1
August 18, 2023 at 10:23 PM
Currently reading and enjoying.
August 18, 2023 at 10:21 PM