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Aly Allen
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Author “Paying for Gas with Quarters” (Middle West Press, 2023). Trans poet, parent, teacher, & veteran. She writes poetry, CNF, & fiction about identity, trauma, & family. She has been a reader, editor, and submitter for eons.
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Contributor’s copy of “Things We Carry Still” arrived @middlewestpress.bsky.social
Grab one to read my poem Recall and everything else!
November 8, 2023 at 12:32 AM
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Join us this Veteran’s Day Nov. 11 at @shopwhittybooks in conversation with Oklahoma poets, professors, and veterans Aly Allen and Bill McCloud - thank you to Whitty Books for supporting poetry- event is free and open to the public. #tulsaartists #poetry #indiebookstore #tulsaevents #veteransday
November 2, 2023 at 3:18 PM
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Paying for Gas with Quarters got its first review!
November 1, 2023 at 4:11 PM
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My book is next to sbchilders at Bliss Books & Bindery in Stillwater, OK!!! I of course grabbed a copy of her new book Prodigals (and it was signed!) They still have a copy of her book and a few of mine on the shelf!
November 1, 2023 at 4:00 PM
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This is an anti-war poem from my book, Paying for Gas with Quarters
Screenshot of a Poem by aly allen. Reads: THERE WON’T BE ANY VETERANS committing suicide if there are no veterans. Not extermination of the current. Elimination of the future. No service. No obligation. No ultimate sacrifice. No unpayable debt. Survivor’s guilt gone. Moral wounds gone. Unscarred. Disbanding the military could prevent depression, and think of all the civilians who won’t be casualties. The condolences and monuments we won’t have to craft. And, aly allen’s poem There Won’t Be Any Veterans continued. Reads: if there are not veterans, perhaps also, there will be only a memory, a well-rehearsed verse about ancestors and war.
October 23, 2023 at 3:47 PM
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Screenshot of poem from Threads @notasquirrel Reads: In Gaza, They Climb Every Day Have you ever climbed a mountain wearing sandals with a broken strap? Have you ever climbed a mountain that arose from rubble in the morning? Have you ever climbed a mountain made of your neighbors’ bodies? Have you ever climbed a mountain for anything other than a view? Have you ever climbed a mountain? When will the climbers crawl over you?
October 22, 2023 at 1:15 PM
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Screenshot of a poem taken from Threads @notasquirrel Reads: When You Say That You Come To A Place Of Poetry To Escape Politics I Think You Don’t Understand Art The sunrise is like the Palestinian children dying much too quickly & every day. The rolling reds & cutting yellows revealing wounds caked, caked in bomb-dust, hospital ashes. Covered by walls, years, lies. Their killers claim themselves daylight. Daylight which displays true darkness.
October 19, 2023 at 12:00 PM
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“‘Paying for Gas with Quarters’ weaves together complex truths: War changes us and yet leaves us longing, still, for connection.” —Jessi M. Atherton, author of “The Time War Takes” $5.99 Kindle: http://amzn.to/3pxl3Qq $11.99 Print: http://amzn.to/3LTLMP2
October 11, 2023 at 2:11 PM
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September 23, 2023 at 12:15 PM