ryan aliapoulios
@raliapo.bsky.social
biological pilot | LA, CA ryanaliapoulios.com generous interpretation (poetry substack): raliapo.substack.com
thinking a lot about how recent world events pose existential risks to human beings, why we must not confuse "art" and "poetry", and some hints at the strange things we're likely to see as human artists adapt to a post-AI world
Creativity, Art, Poetics, Poetry, and "Alien Poetics"
four distinctions and a possibility for poets to understand to survive the post-AI era
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@lilyweiner.bsky.social and I are starting second canon, a project we've been talking about for going on a year (while trying to plan our wedding lol) we are writing about rare books and overlooked authors/influences in an obsessive but non-elitist way cool things to come pls subscribe 💙📚
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alternative canons for book lovers in search of missing links in the literary genome Bsky: @secondcanon.bsky.social | IG: @secondcanonbooks. Click to read Second Canon, a Substack publication. Launch...
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The Largest Historical Dictionary of English Slang Now Free Online: Covers 500 Years of the “Vulgar Tongue”
The Largest Historical Dictionary of English Slang Now Free Online: Covers 500 Years of the “Vulgar Tongue”
'The three volumes of Green's Dictionary of Slang demonstrate the sheer scope of a lifetime of research by Jonathon Green, the leading slang lexicographer of our time. A remarkable collection of this ...
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(misc fish from finding nemo) aw, you guys made me unc...
twitter is finally making me mentally ill enough that I deleted it from my phone so here I am
working on a long essay about the evolving poetics of gendered madness in the poetry of sylvia plath, alejandra pizarnik, alice notley, and jamie hood - intro below and next installments coming soon so tune in
The Stony Fruits of Madness (Intro, Pt 1)
the poetics of madness through Sylvia Plath, Alejandra Pizarnik, Alice Notley, and Jamie Hood
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I feel like I could make bluesky a better place for myself than twitter is esp b/c I can put substack links on here without getting throttled okay bye
poetry prompt: adult, child
the space you enter before the poem, the space you leave behind
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just watched nosferatu... so in honor of that, here's a short story from a while back about a baby vampire fighting a shark underwater for its first kill
Birthing Ritual
In honor of Nosferatu, a short vampire story (excerpt from a long-stalled work-in-progress)
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trying to write more essays this year - have a new one up on why we might not really think our own thoughts, how that bears on the first drafts of poems we write, and how I'm adjusting my writing process in 2025 raliapo.substack.com/p/the-metaph...
The Metaphysics of First Drafts
Creative approach vs. creative intention, implicit limitations, and poetics as encryption and quantum computing
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my little bro put me onto this citypop album when I was home for his hs graduation
when a culture-shifting album comes out meaghan garvey's reviews are required reading (or any other time tbh) pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
Charli XCX: BRAT
Read Meaghan Garvey’s review of the album.
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poems in progress go way harder when you throw them into charli's brat generator
in 2023 I sent a chap to some presses, got nos, edited more, got better nos, edited more, missed sub deadlines, took workshops, edited more etc... this thing is finally ready and prob only now ready to sub, but I'm impatient so I'm going to put it out myself & would love ur support 💙
I had a trial version of afterlife from some demo sampler and was obsessed with it but my catholic parents forbid me from playing once they found out about the subject matter
merritt@merrittk.com · 3y agoI had a copy of this old sim game as a kid and I remember finding it completely inscrutable, maybe even moreso that SimEarth and SimIsle
He’s only half-joking. But this really is the way to do it. Once you’ve accumulated a critical mass of people who have read the book you hand-sold to, the book starts selling itself. The number is different for every book and there are so many chance factors involved it’s impossible to predict it.
for any poetry/writing people out there: u gotta read this jawn
since I started doing the artists way again I've been writing daily sonnets to practice form. highly recommend as a writing exercise!!
denise duhamel was/is one of my first favorite poets
Maureen Thorson@maureenthorson.bsky.social · 3y ago“She is a big car that can leave at any time …” A poem by Denise Duhamel.
are there any in-person poetry workshops based out of LA
every night I realize I need a snack, and every night when I do I get this look
if I die and go to h-e- double hockey sticks, my torturers should know now that my equivalent of pushing a ball up a hill is trying to feed medicine to two different cats simultaneously
