HeyJaredJeff Alessandrelli
Jeff Alessandrelli is a writer living in Portland, Oregon. He runs and co-edits the small press Fonograf Editions.
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on Bill Knott (opens the original)
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The below essay came out at Lit Hub on August 1, 2017, exactly 1 million years ago. (I remember that Lit Hub actually accepted two essays in 2017, back to back. As a fledgling prose writer this was a big win for me, although the second one, on new books by Paul Legault and Brian Blanchfield, didn’t end up running.) Rereading this essay now it feels somewhat overwrought and overwritten, but also fitting to the time. Since 2017, Bill Knott has had a great <a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/97
on resolutions & barding blind (opens the original)
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Suggested resolutions for young poets:I. I promise I will neither write nor read another poem on the death of Orpheus as long as I live.II. I promise I will never describe the sad fate of Oedipus in a poem again, on pain of losing my eyes.III. I promise I will never capture poor Perseus and drag him into my poems, nor Aeneas, nor good Achilles, nor Telamon, nor Penelope, mainly because no one knows who Perseus is.Published in 1959, the above is taken from the second issue of <a href="https://arc
on Alexis Almeida (opens the original)
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The below is a mini-interview I did with Alexis Almeida, over her new poetry collection Caetano, out via Ugly Duckling Presse. Ugly Duckling is and has always been one of the most interesting presses in the country. Remember their journal 6 x 6? When I was young it was the absolute best. Even though it’s now defunct, it still is. The work that UDP publishes is always genuine and surprising and I hope they last for 10 x 10 x 10 more years. <a
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