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allyn 🌎
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Austrian-American Poet 🇦🇹 🇺🇸

PhD Candi~Poetry, Poetics, Ecocriticism, Ecopoetics, American Lit
Associate Editor at the Cimarron Review.

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📖 always learning 📖
In Kind by Maggie Queeney was 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
August 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Federal agents violently detained a food delivery driver as he emerged from a D.C. coffee shop Saturday morning.

The incident captured on video showed the officers throwing him to the ground and beating him before sweeping him away in an unmarked vehicle. wapo.st/45Egtkc
August 17, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Terrance Hayes is a poet who I won’t read for years & when I come back to him, his poems, form, & craft inspire me like I’m reading him for the first time again & again & again.
August 15, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I totally love how we get ads in our email boxes now. Amazing. Top notch. Couldn’t be better.
August 12, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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August 11, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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So Many Amendments Should Have Already Been Made To Our Constitution….
August 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I just found out R.L. Stine is a Libra & for some reason that surprised me.
August 11, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Parting shot of this rock star from last week… Costa’s Hummingbird on cholla skeleton 🪶☀️🌵 (sunrise reflection in bird’s eye)
August 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Dear Poetry & Writing Gods,
Please send me an acceptance as an AWP panelist.
And one (or both) of my chapbooks winning a contest.
And some new pubs from the journals I’ve been submitting to.
Ever Your Humble Servant,
Allyn
August 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I will never not call Thor’s hammer, “Mewmew.”
August 3, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Shower Thot:

I was thinking about the phrase “candid or plandid” & was like, “wth does plandid even mean?”

I thought about it more and decided it must be a pun (?) for “planned it.”

never really thought about that phrase until this morning, but I will say “planned it” is a better slant.
July 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I’m just throwing this out there, but maybe all of us should get Paramount+ solely to watch South Park. 🤷🏻‍♀️
July 25, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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A recent national study concluded that floods previously considered to be hundred-year events have become, on average, 62-year events, as a result of human-caused climate change.
In an Age of Climate Change, How Do We Cope with Floods?
The deaths in the Texas Hill Country are a tragic testament to the force of a raging river. Flood-stricken Vermont has a radical plan to counter the threat it faces.
nyer.cm
July 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
No matter how many times I see it (multiple at this point), every time Rengoku dies, I sob. #demonslayer
July 22, 2025 at 8:21 PM
This week’s reading list contains:
The Last Song of the World -Fasano
From The New World -Graham
Kingdom Animalia -Girmay
Ars Poetica -Spahr
Tripas -Som
The World is Round -Finney
Structure & Surprise -Ed. By Theune
The Art of the Poetic Line -Longenbach
Dark Ecology -Morton
July 14, 2025 at 11:27 AM
I never thought I’d truly get tired of typing (it’s not that hard when just typing information from one document to another), but here we are. #examnotes #phdlife
July 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Potentially unpopular opinion: I think women’s swimwear styles have gone downhill.
July 11, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Starting a YouTube series for my exam readings. Follow along if you’d like. 🥰

Practical Poetics: Part 1
youtu.be/9Jub4QLS9qg
Practical Poetics: Part 1
YouTube video by Allyn Bernkopf
youtu.be
July 7, 2025 at 1:20 AM
If you haven’t ever looked into Eastern body tapping, highly recommend. I’ve never felt anxiety leave my body so quickly. 😍
July 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
An Oscillation Between Extreme Achievement & Excessive Loneliness: A PhD Narrative

Isn’t it strange how a PhD is just as much about mental & emotional resilience as it is about learning the stuff & becoming an expert? 😜 T-3 months ‘til I’m ABD. 😮‍💨✋🏻 If you need a cheerleader, hit me up. 🥳
July 6, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Don't try to figure out Canadians. We don't know either.
#HappyCanadaDay
July 1, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I am blown away by Go Figure by Rae Armantrout. Wow. Just wow.
July 1, 2025 at 9:10 PM
A Fortune For Your Disaster by Hanif Abdurraqib is absolutely your next must-read.
June 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Reposted by allyn 🌎
In 1885, white rioters murdered dozens of Chinese residents of Rock Springs, Wyoming. The story of the atrocity is still being unearthed 140 years later.
When an American Town Massacred Its Chinese Immigrants
In 1885, white rioters murdered dozens of their Asian neighbors in Rock Springs, Wyoming. A hundred and forty years later, the story of the atrocity is still being unearthed.
nyer.cm
June 26, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Love that I’m watching the Joplin, Missouri tornado documentary & about halfway through, the weather outside my house thunders. I definitely jumped.
June 26, 2025 at 9:34 PM