Allison Adair
@fascicles
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Poet, professor, mama, redhead 🐯🐯🔥💥 THE CLEARING (Milkweed) 📚 Work @BestAmPo @PushcartPrize @Poetry_Daily, Kenyon Review, Threepenny, Waxwing.
Joined June 2014
Joy & gratitude beyond words. Thank you so much to @Milkweed_Books, to @ColeHenri, & to the team of readers who saw something in 'The Clearing'. And thank you, always thank you to Max Ritvo, whose work remains wild and alive.
✨Poetry news!✨ THE CLEARING by Allison Adair (@fascicles) is the 3rd annual winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize! Henri Cole calls the collection "lush" and "devastating," and it'll hit shelves in June 2020. 🎉 Congrats, Allison! https://t.co/H1C7HWo0NG
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Enormous congratulations to @pswordwoman on winning this year's National Book Award for Poetry! And what a speech that was. 🥹 https://t.co/Qbphp4vfxK
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It's an honor to have GREAT DISASTERS (out this month from @Tin_House !) included in the Chicago Tribune's Fall Book Preview ❤️ Set in Chicago in the wake of 9/11, the book follows six friends as they navigate changing relationships to the country and one another. ✨
Books for fall 2025: Luigi, Ozzy and the great beyond
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Brookline, MA, has a new poet laureate & it is @AMIGHTYBLAZE's own Allison Adair (!!!), aka @fascicles. You can read about this accomplishment below, but most scroll thru other Brookline news first. I think they buried the lede!!! https://t.co/sCPvVo2A1D
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Developer plans to try again on Citizen’s Bank 40B After a second about-face, the developer who owns the shuttered Citizens Bank on Harvard Street is again putting forward a plan to build a six-story...
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Only 2 more days till our Poetry International contest closes! $16/5 poems. You could win $1000!
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SUBMIT YOUR WORK TODAY FOR THE SUMMER BLUE MOUNTAIN REVIEW: https://t.co/peFVYySK3d
#submissions #getpublished
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Kasamatsu Shiro Cherry Blossoms at the Tôshôgû Shrine in Ueno 1935
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Cambridge University Press calls for Meta to pay for the pirated books they've used for AI training. "It’s essential that governments and authorities do not let big tech companies get away with taking authors’ work without permission. This reinforces the risks of inadequate
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Today is the day, folks! One of my favorite-favorite writers, full stop.
Excited to finally share the cover of my next poetry collection, SCORCHED EARTH! Pub date: March 4, 2025. Cover art by the incomparable Kara Walker. 8 years in the making! Pre-order link in my bio.
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“POC” was targeted because they thought it meant “people of color.” It stood for “point of care” in medical emergencies: This Is the Research Ted Cruz Calls “Woke.” — ProPublica
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The senator flagged thousands of National Science Foundation grants for using words like “female” and “diversify.” A ProPublica analysis found numerous examples of projects caught up in his crude...
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C. S. Lewis, you just live
genuinely how do u not descend into being a doomer about the current political climate
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Meet the sleazy disaster capitalist firms descending like vultures onto the ruins of Gaza
US firm hired to operate Gaza checkpoints exposed as shell company of ‘generational wealth management’ firm Safe Reach Solutions is one of three firms reportedly contracted to inspect Palestinians as they return to their destroyed homes in northern Gaza https://t.co/CRk91uS9Ou
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As if running my piece weren’t enough, they let me on to their podcast to mumble about it... Poor @TheTLS:
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Boris Dralyuk on a compelling portrait of the Black Sea port of Odesa, past and present; Russell Williams is put in mind of the rumpled TV detective Columbo by a pacy French novel
I’m in @TheTLS today—alongside many worthier contributors, including @BlackerUilleam and @Bryan_S_K—with a piece on @thejulianevans’s remarkable new book about my hometown, Odesa. UNDEFEATABLE is the word. https://t.co/FP2TbEfzNR
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Can't wait for this timely symposium at the @HutchinsCenter at @Harvard: "The Future of Hip Hop Studies" feat. H. Samy Alim, Regina Bradley, Adam Bradley, & Mark Anthony Neal w/ closing remarks from Tricia Rose. https://t.co/NrxdmDMSjQ
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