Allison Adair

@fascicles

Poet, professor, mama, redhead - THE CLEARING (Milkweed) 📚 - Work in Georgia Review, Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review, Threepenny, Best American Poetry, Pushcart anthology. Hybrid enthusiast. www.allisonadair.com

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Allison Adair@fascicles· 14d

It's looking like "redesigns" can't hide the essential downward trends in US SAT scores...from the 'Harvard Gazette': news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Allison Adair@fascicles· 18d

Beautiful poem up at @rhinopoetry.bsky.social. "There Are Lights to Turn On After Dusk" by Lindsey Wayland, chosen by Matthew Olzmann.

Allison Adair@fascicles· 18d

Good Lord. All those people in government, and not one can raise a flag on this?

Allison Adair@fascicles· Mar 20

Grateful to OSU's The Journal for including my little weirdo poem in their latest issue. Shout-out to the scratching in the walls, source of all inspiration. Read the whole issue at thejournalmag.org/archives/24842.

Allison Adair@fascicles· Feb 9

For teens starry-eyed to angst-ridden: All are welcome at Friday's workshop on 🫀🫀LOVE POEMS🫀🫀. Just in time for the day of St. Valentine! Brookline Public Library, 3:30 pm, 2/13. Please share with those you think might be interested! @brooklinenews.bsky.social @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social

Allison Adair@fascicles· Jan 19

Boston-area friends, please join us in celebrating the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. today -- 3 p.m. at the Coolidge Corner Theater.

Allison Adair@fascicles· Nov 20

Enormous congratulations to @poetpatriciasmith.bsky.social on winning this year's National Book Award for Poetry! And what a speech that was. 🥹 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxKM...

Allison Adair@fascicles· Aug 5

CD Wright: "Death is death and none other." Somehow it carries tragedy & destiny--how? Paradox is small comfort. Wrote this poem after a loved one's death--it came out this summer @southerninreview.bsky.social. But after losing my father suddenly last week, it now seems the poem was always for him.

Allison Adair@fascicles· May 7

Stay dangerous, indies. 💪 Friends, please support these presses by donating or by buying their (amazing, radical) books.

Allison Adair@fascicles· Apr 9

("Ypres" is from Rick Barot)

Allison Adair@fascicles· Apr 9

How moved to find my sad spontaneous overflow at home in the wonderful Georgia Review, alongside work from writers I admire. Here's my girl, whew, here she is, friends, be gentle, snapped w/ a few other poems that caught my eye. What an issue! 🌾 Grateful for poetry. #nationalpoetrymonth

Allison Adair@fascicles· Apr 9

Afternoon fire + balm of Danez Smith in conversation with @recycledgiraffe.bsky.social

Allison Adair@fascicles· Mar 19

The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

Shoots spearing up out of hard winter ground.

Allison Adair@fascicles· Jan 22

Can't wait for this timely symposium at the Hutchins Center at @harvard.edu: "The Future of Hip Hop Studies" feat. H. Samy Alim, Regina Bradley, Adam Bradley, & Mark Anthony Neal w/ closing remarks by Tricia Rose. @adambradley.bsky.social hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/hiphopsympos...

Allison Adair@fascicles· Jan 22

"Just Once," Anne Sexton photo courtesy of @patrycjasara.bsky.social

Just once I knew what life was for.
In Boston, quite suddenly, I understood;
walked there along the Charles River,
watched the lights copying themselves,
all neoned and strobe-hearted, opening
their mouths as wide as opera singers;
counted the stars, my little campaigners,
my scar daisies, and knew that I walked my love
on the night green side of it and cried
my heart to the eastbound cars and cried
my heart to the westbound cars and took
my truth across a small humped bridge
and hurried my truth, the charm of it, home
and hoarded these constants into morning
only to find them gone.

Allison Adair@fascicles· Dec 10

The saddest, realest pietà I ever saw. Anguish, not serenity. Sculptor was Pietro Giuseppe Tito. In Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice.

Allison Adair@fascicles· Nov 20

One of the better craft books I've read in a while: 'Structure and Surprise', ed. by Michael Theune. Chapters from Mary Szybist, D.A. Powell, Prageeta Sharma, Christopher Bakken, and so many more. Only a few chapters in -- but definitely recommend. #poetry

Allison Adair@fascicles· Nov 19

“Every war is answered by a new war, until everything is smashed.” - Käthe Kollwitz

Allison Adair@fascicles· Nov 19

My PA heart loves that I'm associated at all with this smolder-town. Got a poem about it in my collection, 'The Clearing'. Originally published in South Dakota Review.

Allison Adair@fascicles· Nov 12

Psyched that this saucy little poem, "Jubilee," came to rest at 'Copper Nickel'. What an issue--including the quasi-cento on the back cover. (Camera haze is from falling into an Icelandic stream, which was surprisingly delightful & unsurprisingly chilly.)