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Alex Carrigan

@carriganak.bsky.social

Poet, critic, editor. Author of "Now Let's Get Brunch" (Querencia Press, 2023) and "May All Our Pain Be Champagne" (Alien Buddha Press, 2022)

245 Followers | 167 Following | 147 Posts | Joined: 16.08.2023 | 2.3804

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lol, sorry @sageciggs.bsky.social

01.12.2025 20:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Book review: “Her Terrible Splendor” by Aza Pace - sage cigarettes magazine Alex Carrigan's review of "HerTerrible Splendor" by Aza Pace

My review of Aza Pace's "Her Terrible Splendor" is live in @trans.bsky.social. Read about this collection of modern Circe poems here: sagecigarettes.com/book-review-...

01.12.2025 18:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

We’re excited to share this poem with everyone in Flight 3!

We still need fiction and pieces for our Brewer’s Choice category—submit today!

flight-literary.ghost.io/submission-g...

30.11.2025 21:35 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Got an acceptance from @flightlit.bsky.social for my poem "Ars Poetica: Tulips!" Look forward to seeing this piece in the future!

30.11.2025 21:10 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1

Day 30: Soneta 2. I messed up the count yesterday, but all six poems are complete. Now for editing and submitting!

30.11.2025 20:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

ICYMI, my poem "Fed Herself" is in the new @the-engine-idling.bsky.social issue! Check out the full piece below:

30.11.2025 20:19 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Day 28: COS 4, Verse 7. One more to go!

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Day 28: COS 4, Verse 6

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Day 27: COS 4, Verse 5

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Day 26: COS 4, Verse 4

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My poem "I Am Starting to Root for Him, On His Way to Dust" has been selected as one of Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine's Pushcart nominations! Check out the poem below!

26.11.2025 16:28 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Day 25: COS 4, Verse 3

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Day 24: COS 4, Verse 2 (accidentally deleted the original post, reposting now)

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Day 25: COS 4, Verse 3

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Day 23: COS 4, Verse 1

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Alex Carrigan Radha Pining for Krishna, folio from a Gita Govinda (Song of the Lord), by a master of the first generation after Nainsukh (active ca. 1710–78), opaque watercolor and gold on paper. In the Freer Ga…

Check out my poems "Pining for Radha" and "Briar Rose" in the new issue of Inlandia Journal: inlandiajournal.net/fall-2025-vo...

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Day 22: COS 3, Verse 7. One crown left.

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Day 21: COS 3, Verse 6

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Can't wait!

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Day 20: COS 3, Verse 5

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Day 19: COS 3, Verse 4

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Day 18: COS 3, Verse 3

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Day 17: COS 3, Verse 2

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The second is "Eating a Chicken Sandwich at Uproar Lounge and Restaurant," found here: vernacularjournal.com/Eating-a-Chi...

16.11.2025 23:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I have two poems live in the new Vernacular Journal. The first is "Eating Goldfish Crackers at Crush Dance Bar," found here: vernacularjournal.com/Eating-Goldf...

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Day 16: COS 3, Verse 1.

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Day 15: Soneta 1. Inspired by "Mermaids" by Florence + The Machine

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Day 14: COS 2, Verse 7. And with that, my crown of sonnets inspired by Maria from Silent Hill 2 is complete!

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Day 13: COS 2, Verse 6

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Day 12: COS 2, Verse 5

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Pine Hills Review
@pinehillsreview

Publishing irreverent, different, and surprising work that tries to do something new. Est. 2014. Edited by Alex J. Tunney and @danielnestermfa.bsky.social. Read us at pinehillsreview.com.

Sage Cigarettes Magazine (on hiatus)
@sageciggs

Online based literary magazine that’s just dying to read your poems & short stories & see your art 💗 EIC: @stefspecter.bsky.social

Philly Poetry Chapbook Review
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Philly Poetry Chapbook Review is a home for writing about #chapbooks consisting mainly of #poetry. | ISSN: 2995-6447 | Member: CLMP

Flight: A Literary Sampler
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A literary journal presenting four pieces in each issue, a sampling of the best writing out there. EICs: @fklein907.bsky.social and @ketchiklein.bsky.social https://flight-literary.ghost.io/

Jessica Nirvana Ram
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Whale Road Review
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Eleanor Ball
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christine
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The Light Ekphrastic
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Sonic Boom Journal
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Washington Writers’ Publishing House
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Graveside Press
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The Circus Collective
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