Sometimes when people address the Annulet team in a submission, I think "hello" in three different tones like in old-fashioned alien caricatures
Alicia Wright
@aliciawright.bsky.social
Poet, PhD, Editor @annulet.bsky.social, a literary journal and soon a small press // Managing Editor of The Iowa Review // Author of You're Called By The Same Sound (Thirdhand Books, August 2025) // Takes are mine, all mine
Annulet's "American Poetry and Poetics, 2008–2025" forum is calling and saying omg, please use this for an essay!
New dataset hot off the press 🚨 This data documents the bestselling authors and titles distributed by Small Press Distribution (SPD) between 2006-2023, including American poetry, short and experimental fiction, & hybrid nonfiction and essay. Check it out! data.post45.org/posts/small-...
This is such a valuable dataset on small press bestsellers, preserving nearly 20 years of SPD's history. So much diligent data curation here, pieced together from social media posts and web archives. Congrats to Sera-Ann Hargrove and @micahbateman.bsky.social on creating this important resource.
New dataset hot off the press 🚨 This data documents the bestselling authors and titles distributed by Small Press Distribution (SPD) between 2006-2023, including American poetry, short and experimental fiction, & hybrid nonfiction and essay. Check it out! data.post45.org/posts/small-...
The book and the horse probably have the most in common, historically speaking
Annulet's Issue (11) is here, green and ready for ya, featuring new work from Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué, Gillian Conoley, Stefania Heim, Lee Trumpfheller, Noah Warren, Kamden Ishmael Hilliard, Hannah Piette, Wayne Koestenbaum and many more— annuletpoeticsjournal.com/Issue-11
This is really great, with many quotable portions, but I will just highlight "making the rejection of democracy sound like futurism" is such an elegant way to describe the what's going on.
SpaceX's $1.75T IPO ties Musk's pay to building a million-person Mars colony. A sci-fi scenario has been encoded into an SEC filing. My new piece on materialized science fiction and the remaking of empire is now live.
I do enjoy how fast the "we publish edgy work that pushes social and political boundaries we're so fucked up" Hobartian mission statement of the post-woke online litmag wave has already become trite 'n' liberalized
Sending very belated notices for Annulet submissions from the weeks after my father's death in 2023, and only a handful of snide to shitty replies so far, nice
I miss so much good stuff these days. I am somehow only just discovering this cluster on C. D. Wright, the best of the best (and you can, too!).
✒️ 📔 Today's the day of our C.D. Wright cluster! Ed. @aliciawright.bsky.social ft. 11 contributors—the list is too long to fit into a single post! But you're in luck, bc the thread below tells the tale of this exceptional homage for an exceptionally talented poet! post45.org/contemporaries
J. H. Prynne wrote a guide to reading works of literature for Cambridge students. This was the postscript:
Keston Sutherland on Prynne in the eternally-riveting Glossator, which devoted an entire issue to Prynne as well as publishing his Tintern essay. glossator.org/wp-content/u...
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So long, J. H. Prynne (24 June 1936 – 22 April 2026). Oh, what an intent to name and delineate the things of the world with something like prudence, futile, names being such monsters of uncertainty. . . Out of _The White Stones_ (1969):
Our next recommendation has been unlocked! Here’s Managing Editor Alicia Wright’s fiction recommendation—what will her nonfiction favorite be? Donate any amount at 1dayforiowa.org/tir26 by midnight to find out—! #1DayforIowa
Your #1DayForIowa donations have real impact. Through your generosity, we can train more undergraduate interns and ensure that we can meet the rising costs of production. Thank you to all who’ve given so far today—less than 8 hours to go before they shut down the giving page at 1dayforiowa.org/tir26
Our #1DayForIowa donations are rolling in! Thank you to all our donors so far! Here’s a recommendation from our Managing Editor, Alicia Wright. Head to 1dayforiowa.org/tir26 to give to our campaign and unlock her other two favorites!
Happy #1DayForIowa! Staff will share a book recommendation for each donor to TIR via the University of Iowa's annual giving day. 1dayforiowa/org/tir26
Take my money/idea: Someone should write the screenplay and cast Adam Driver as John Donne in an A24 style Shakespeare in Love type situation
I had the opportunity to talk out (one might call it mouthing off, but demurely) my thoughts about my book and the literature of the U.S. South, and to open up (a little) about my poetics, writing process, and politics in response to these generous questions from Shane Chase of The Brooklyn Review.
Interview | No Matter the Site or Scale: A Conversation with Alicia Wright
Interviewer: Shane Chase Introducing our new interview series, Process & Person. Writers’ communities are a strange breed. You might be meeting for the first time, nervous, maybe a little shy. …
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The ouroborus of conflict avoidance and absenteeism that afflicts a certain generational stripe of cultural worker
Annulet returns with Issue (9) and (10), a double decker that features the first iteration of our open folio "American Poetry & Poetics, 2008–2025." So much is here for you to read. We're so happy to be back.
Join us tonight at 7 pm for a reading by Jake Fournier and conversation with @aliciawright.bsky.social !
CALL FOR PITCHES @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience. We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not. Details below!
Book maybe didn't make any lists, but I have truly been touched by the handful of kind emails about it this fall...a channel of poetry that heretofore I'd only read about, moving to move into
Before I “meet a voice” I personally prefer to “meet the mind” but little did I know how out of vogue this is
This is great. Maybe my favorite critical essay yet about C D Wright, in a cluster of good ones! @jenssread.bsky.social @post45.bsky.social post45.org/2025/11/cd-w...
Relative Poetics: On C.D. Wright, Appropriation, and the Decentered Self – Post45
Winter outside of Providence; winter in northern lower Michigan. Light like a gnat crawling the walls of a milk-glass jar — between snow and cloud cover, the sun’s pale ricochets subdued. In a copy ro...
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Thanks to @aliciawright.bsky.social for all her hard work in getting this cluster together! What a joy to get to work with you! And thanks @franciscondine.bsky.social for all your editorial & technical work! The cluster looks beautiful! @atpost45.bsky.social post45.org/2025/11/c-d-...
C.D. Wright: University Poet – Post45
Thinking on the work and career of the poet C.D. Wright, I return, in my own elliptical fashion, to two quotes (and one idea) from two writers who write about the nature of literary production at the ...
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