Poet, critic, editor. Author of "Now Let's Get Brunch" (Querencia Press, 2023) and "May All Our Pain Be Champagne" (Alien Buddha Press, 2022)
Alex Carrigan
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My "Into the Wood"-inspired villanelle "We Should Have Eaten Before We Left" is live in COMP Journal. Read it here: www.compajournal.com/issue-6-poet...
My @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social inspired duplex "Joy Comes Easy When I've Seen the Alternative" is live in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics. Check out the poem here:
Throwback to my poem "Ars Poetica: Tulips" in @flightlit.bsky.social! They're open for subs right now, so check them out! flight-literary.ghost.io/submission-g...
My poem "When Silence Falls" is the @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social daily today! You can read this golden shovel here: www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/when-silen...
a green scar across / the sketch of his face
Wow! I'm so thrilled by the responses to my poem. Thank you @clayrebenz.bsky.social and @fakeourway.bsky.social for your votes/comments!
My poem "Ars Poetica for James" is live in @musepiepress.bsky.social! Check it out here: www.musepiepress.com/shotglass/al...
My first full-length turns 3 today! Thanks to
@querenciapress.bsky.social for taking a chance on this odd collection and to everyone who has engaged with the work.
If you'd like to ready poems made from the things famous drag queens posted on Twitter, order it here: bookshop.org/p/books/now-...
Check out my latest piece in @pinehillsreview.bsky.social!
The new issue of @consequencef.bsky.social is out! My ekphrastic poem "War Stories" is included, so order your copy here: consequenceforum.org/product/volu...
Letter from the Editors Dear Readers, Many of the pieces in this volume focus on the power of language—whether in its written or spoken form. From H.R. Spencer’s poem “The Grammar of War” to Dewaine ...
Flight is a literary magazine that features four pieces in each issue: one poem, one story, one essay, and a “Brewer’s Choice” category, offbeat submissions, which will rotate genre by issue. Please s...
My poem "Ars Poetica for James" is live in @musepiepress.bsky.social! Check it out here: www.musepiepress.com/shotglass/al...
“His Face Was as Vague as That of a Ghost” by Alex Carrigan
"If he sat too long, he’d start to blend. / If he stood too long, he'd start to blend. / Colors seemed to run away from him / the longer he was awake each day."
The vivid images of “Ars Poetica: Tulips” by @carriganak.bsky.social
flight-literary.ghost.io/alex-carriga...
If he sat too long, he’d start to blend. / If he stood too long, he'd start to blend. / Colors seemed to run away from him / the longer he was awake each day.
We're gonna start our Issue 8 Reader's Choice Award nominations break down...
We had 2 votes in for Alex Carrigan's @carriganak.bsky.social "The Idle Crown"
Read it: engineidling.net/current
Nominators: Clayre Benzadon @clayrebenz.bsky.social &
Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social
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Alex Carrigan
Alex Carrigan (he/him) is a Pushcart-nominated editor, poet, and critic from Alexandria, VA. He is the author of Now Let’s Get Brunch (Querencia Press, 2023) and May All Our Pain Be Champagne (Alien B...
