Alison Lubar
@theoriginalison.bsky.social
poet & aspiring queer elder & mixed CA transplant 🌹 poetry collections w @thirtywestph '22 || Bottlecap '22 || @mouthfeelpress '23 || @stanchion '23 || METAMOURPHOSIS @fifthwheelpress ‘24 (they/themme) https://linktr.ee/theoriginalison
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Join us on 11/18 to hear featured readers @clayrebenz.bsky.social, @theoriginalison.bsky.social, & @stevenreigns.bsky.social.
Yes, we are switching to Tuesday this month!!
@driftwoodpress.bsky.social
@smallharborpub.bsky.social
#poetrysky #poetrynews #poets #poetry
Yes, we are switching to Tuesday this month!!
@driftwoodpress.bsky.social
@smallharborpub.bsky.social
#poetrysky #poetrynews #poets #poetry
November 17, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Join us on 11/18 to hear featured readers @clayrebenz.bsky.social, @theoriginalison.bsky.social, & @stevenreigns.bsky.social.
Yes, we are switching to Tuesday this month!!
@driftwoodpress.bsky.social
@smallharborpub.bsky.social
#poetrysky #poetrynews #poets #poetry
Yes, we are switching to Tuesday this month!!
@driftwoodpress.bsky.social
@smallharborpub.bsky.social
#poetrysky #poetrynews #poets #poetry
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Join us on 11/18 to hear featured readers @clayrebenz.bsky.social, @theoriginalison.bsky.social, & @stevenreigns.bsky.social.
Yes, we are switching to Tuesday this month!!
@driftwoodpress.bsky.social
@smallharborpub.bsky.social
#poetrysky #poetrynews #poets #poetry
Yes, we are switching to Tuesday this month!!
@driftwoodpress.bsky.social
@smallharborpub.bsky.social
#poetrysky #poetrynews #poets #poetry
November 15, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Join us on 11/18 to hear featured readers @clayrebenz.bsky.social, @theoriginalison.bsky.social, & @stevenreigns.bsky.social.
Yes, we are switching to Tuesday this month!!
@driftwoodpress.bsky.social
@smallharborpub.bsky.social
#poetrysky #poetrynews #poets #poetry
Yes, we are switching to Tuesday this month!!
@driftwoodpress.bsky.social
@smallharborpub.bsky.social
#poetrysky #poetrynews #poets #poetry
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Join us on 11/18 to hear featured readers @clayrebenz.bsky.social, @theoriginalison.bsky.social, & @stevenreigns.bsky.social.
Yes, we are switching to Tuesday this month!!
@driftwoodpress.bsky.social
@smallharborpub.bsky.social
#poetrysky #poetrynews #poets #poetry
Yes, we are switching to Tuesday this month!!
@driftwoodpress.bsky.social
@smallharborpub.bsky.social
#poetrysky #poetrynews #poets #poetry
November 13, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Join us on 11/18 to hear featured readers @clayrebenz.bsky.social, @theoriginalison.bsky.social, & @stevenreigns.bsky.social.
Yes, we are switching to Tuesday this month!!
@driftwoodpress.bsky.social
@smallharborpub.bsky.social
#poetrysky #poetrynews #poets #poetry
Yes, we are switching to Tuesday this month!!
@driftwoodpress.bsky.social
@smallharborpub.bsky.social
#poetrysky #poetrynews #poets #poetry
open.substack.com/pub/onlypoem... thank you @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social for sharing this piece originally published in @literaryhub.bsky.social in their Best New Poems series! ♥️
The Body of Grief as Rice and Butter by Alison Lubar
How do I keep all these little parts inside? What remains?
open.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:25 AM
open.substack.com/pub/onlypoem... thank you @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social for sharing this piece originally published in @literaryhub.bsky.social in their Best New Poems series! ♥️
THE OTHER TREE is launched 🍋✨ thank you to my stunningly talented and generous features, and A Novel Idea on Passyunk for hosting ♥️ @smallharborpub.bsky.social ♥️♥️
October 22, 2025 at 7:57 PM
THE OTHER TREE is launched 🍋✨ thank you to my stunningly talented and generous features, and A Novel Idea on Passyunk for hosting ♥️ @smallharborpub.bsky.social ♥️♥️
today is the day! she’s out in the world 🍋♥️
Alison Lubar’s The Other Tree—winner of the 2023 Laureate Prize—is here. These luminous poems reanimate the past, recover what has been lost, and keep growing in the shade of memory and love.
Get your copy today: www.amazon.com/-/es/Alison-...
Get your copy today: www.amazon.com/-/es/Alison-...
September 19, 2025 at 12:33 AM
today is the day! she’s out in the world 🍋♥️
one last teaser from THE OTHER TREE, out tomorrow with @smallharborpub.bsky.social 🦋
Read “The Body of Grief as Rice and Butter,” a poem by @theoriginalison.bsky.social from the collection The Other Tree: “A body, from a body, from a body, from a body. Trans-generational grief engenders both tenderness and bitterness.”
“The Body of Grief as Rice and Butter,” a Poem by Alison Lubar
A body, from a body, from a body, from a body. Trans-generational grief engenders both tenderness and bitterness. Since their incarceration during the Japanese Internment, my grandfather, his siste…
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September 17, 2025 at 10:26 PM
one last teaser from THE OTHER TREE, out tomorrow with @smallharborpub.bsky.social 🦋
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August 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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@writesloud.bsky.social, @theoriginalison.bsky.social. 3 great Caribbean Islands, 3 days at sea, 1 stunning ship. Just sayin'
Who'd like to work on writing their next chapbook, novel, short story or poetry collection surrounded by 5,000 plants on the most elegant & artistic ship at sea? Oh, & spend a few days on the beach in St. Kitts, St. Thomas & DR? Welcome to Stanchion @ Sea.
www.stanchionzine.com/sea
www.stanchionzine.com/sea
Stanchion @ Sea | Stanchion
Join Stanchion authors on cruises packed with poetry and prose writing workshops, one-on-one sessions, readings, open mics, book signings, group dinners, happy hours, and so much more. Cruise on the m...
www.stanchionzine.com
July 28, 2025 at 4:51 PM
@writesloud.bsky.social, @theoriginalison.bsky.social. 3 great Caribbean Islands, 3 days at sea, 1 stunning ship. Just sayin'
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🚨BREAKING: Cal State LA just moved classes online and let faculty work remotely, not for a storm, not for COVID, but because ICE is in the area.
Let that sink in, an entire university is treating immigration enforcement like a public health crisis.
Let that sink in, an entire university is treating immigration enforcement like a public health crisis.
July 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
🚨BREAKING: Cal State LA just moved classes online and let faculty work remotely, not for a storm, not for COVID, but because ICE is in the area.
Let that sink in, an entire university is treating immigration enforcement like a public health crisis.
Let that sink in, an entire university is treating immigration enforcement like a public health crisis.
join me for poetry at sea 💜🧜🏼♀️✨ and also yoga ofc
This is going to be an absolutely remarkable week.
Bookings are now open for the inaugural Stanchion @ Sea sailing, a writing retreat like no other with @writesloud.bsky.social & @theoriginalison.bsky.social on board leading the prose & poetry tracks, respectively.
stanchionzine.com/sea
Bookings are now open for the inaugural Stanchion @ Sea sailing, a writing retreat like no other with @writesloud.bsky.social & @theoriginalison.bsky.social on board leading the prose & poetry tracks, respectively.
stanchionzine.com/sea
July 11, 2025 at 11:51 AM
join me for poetry at sea 💜🧜🏼♀️✨ and also yoga ofc
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The recording of last night’s Night Light reading is now available for viewing! It was such a joy to host @natallman.bsky.social, Ari Lisner, @lowermelody.bsky.social, & Zach Spruce—run it back at the 🔗 below! 💡
June 27, 2025 at 11:09 PM
The recording of last night’s Night Light reading is now available for viewing! It was such a joy to host @natallman.bsky.social, Ari Lisner, @lowermelody.bsky.social, & Zach Spruce—run it back at the 🔗 below! 💡
tomorrow!
Join us tomorrow night, June 26, at 8:00 PM EDT for a reading with our 2025 Get the Word Out Poetry Cohort. Celebrate this incredible group of poets and hear them read from their forthcoming books. RSVP: at.pw.org/GTWOreading25
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: 2025 Get the Word Out Poetry Reading. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Join Poets & Writers for a celebratory reading by the current poetry cohort of Get the Word Out, a publicity incubator for early-career authors, Adedayo Agarau, Genevieve DeGuzman, Isabella DeSendi, A...
at.pw.org
June 26, 2025 at 4:43 AM
tomorrow!
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Our summer reading period closes in six (6!) days! 📚💙👇
Psst…we’re reading full-length poetry manuscripts now. Yes, we read them all. Yes, all submitters hear back from us before we announce selections. No, there’s no mandatory reading fee. 📚💙🌊🌊
riverriverbooks.org/editors/subm...
riverriverbooks.org/editors/subm...
June 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Our summer reading period closes in six (6!) days! 📚💙👇
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Toni Morrison is one of the greatest writers to ever live. What many don’t know, is that she was also the first Black woman to become a senior editor at Random House. I wrote about a new book that discusses how she edited by day, wrote by night, and ushered in a new generation of Black writers.
How Toni Morrison Changed Publishing
At night, she worked on her novels. By day, as an editor at Random House, she championed a new generation of writers.
www.theatlantic.com
June 25, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Toni Morrison is one of the greatest writers to ever live. What many don’t know, is that she was also the first Black woman to become a senior editor at Random House. I wrote about a new book that discusses how she edited by day, wrote by night, and ushered in a new generation of Black writers.
TONIGHT, philly babes 😘
June 25, 2025 at 6:12 PM
TONIGHT, philly babes 😘
two new poems! thank you so much, @diodeeditions.bsky.social ♥️
June 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
two new poems! thank you so much, @diodeeditions.bsky.social ♥️
here we come, NYC! 🥰✨
I'm so thrilled that Stanchion will make its New York City Poetry Festival debut this summer. Join Stanchion book authors & magazine contributors @theoriginalison.bsky.social @mrmandell8.bsky.social Lynne Schmidt & travis I. tate on Saturday July 12th at 5pm on The Algonquin Stage!
June 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM
here we come, NYC! 🥰✨
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The Best Debut Books of 2025 (So Far) is coming on June 16. Sign up for the email to be the first to know.
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June 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The Best Debut Books of 2025 (So Far) is coming on June 16. Sign up for the email to be the first to know.
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so grateful for this generous review— thank you @lowermelody.bsky.social 💜💜
New review up today at @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social : "Timelines and Traumas: on IT SKIPS A GENERATION" by @theoriginalison.bsky.social from @stanchionbooks.bsky.social
This chapbook uses formidable concision to explore the links between American fascism's past and present iterations.
This chapbook uses formidable concision to explore the links between American fascism's past and present iterations.
June 5, 2025 at 6:38 PM
so grateful for this generous review— thank you @lowermelody.bsky.social 💜💜
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Not everyone who writes about you wants you back.
May 27, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Not everyone who writes about you wants you back.
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Heaven Looks Like Us: An Evening of Palestinian Poetry 🇵🇸
Join @intifadabatata.bsky.social, @noorhindi.bsky.social, and contributors to the new Palestinian poetry anthology Heaven Looks Like Us for a virtual reading in commemoration of Nakba Day.
RSVP to join:
www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
Join @intifadabatata.bsky.social, @noorhindi.bsky.social, and contributors to the new Palestinian poetry anthology Heaven Looks Like Us for a virtual reading in commemoration of Nakba Day.
RSVP to join:
www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
May 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Heaven Looks Like Us: An Evening of Palestinian Poetry 🇵🇸
Join @intifadabatata.bsky.social, @noorhindi.bsky.social, and contributors to the new Palestinian poetry anthology Heaven Looks Like Us for a virtual reading in commemoration of Nakba Day.
RSVP to join:
www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
Join @intifadabatata.bsky.social, @noorhindi.bsky.social, and contributors to the new Palestinian poetry anthology Heaven Looks Like Us for a virtual reading in commemoration of Nakba Day.
RSVP to join:
www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
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beestung is now open for new work by two-spirit, genderqueer, and non-binary writers!
we'll probably only be open for another week or so!
beestungmag.com/about/
we'll probably only be open for another week or so!
beestungmag.com/about/
April 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM
beestung is now open for new work by two-spirit, genderqueer, and non-binary writers!
we'll probably only be open for another week or so!
beestungmag.com/about/
we'll probably only be open for another week or so!
beestungmag.com/about/
thank you so much for sharing this ♥️
Returning today to @theoriginalison.bsky.social's chapbook from @stanchion.bsky.social, IT SKIPS A GENERATION, which shines a light on Japanese Internment camps from the last century
Let us not forget our history, as we face our present...
Let us not forget our history, as we face our present...
![Alison Lubar
Nothing Skips a Generation
California Temporal-Diptych
I. 1 945
When the war was over,
[on paper] it wasn't over.
There, we [became dust.
Here, we] returned to dust-
America was [a home
that held no home]
left. Even the door-
[jamb was stripped. Doors]
closed, never [to open]
for work, for us. Open
[a tin, salmon in] a can.
No [one ever can]
come back.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vum4yxnitn3f3c2imbswpijh/bafkreiam2yksja6vbplbri73ahblnh7ykug3b2lnbcuwhuwqoozoikgqdq@jpeg)
April 15, 2025 at 12:06 AM
thank you so much for sharing this ♥️
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LAST DAY TO SUBMIT! ⌛️call & send in a poem by midnight pacific time to be considered for our spring issue 🌷
we are currently accepting submissions for our SPRING 2025 issue, & we'd love to hear from you! ✨🌷✨
details + instructions: voicemailpoems.org/submit
💜 deadline april 1st 💜
details + instructions: voicemailpoems.org/submit
💜 deadline april 1st 💜
April 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
LAST DAY TO SUBMIT! ⌛️call & send in a poem by midnight pacific time to be considered for our spring issue 🌷