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© MARY MARGARET ALVARADO
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  • Are parties a genre? I have been throwing DIY, micro-granting moveable feasts since 2017. This was the first one since COVID, and Rocky Mountain PBS showed up to film, a gift.

  • Nice to find my third notable in The Best American, this time for "Is the First Technological Question the Question of Nipples?"

  • "So We Can Say Goodbye," a found essay, an epistolary essay, an elegy, an ur-letter, an experiment, is in good company in the winter (print only) edition of Allium.

  • "What sort of touch would you experience as a peasant in the year 900 in the Kingdom of Burgundy on a windy day in June?" now online from the beautiful winter edition of The Georgia Review

  • A new arts+letters print magazine made by an old friend from an old letters+arts print magazine, and I am happy to be in it. Loonbeek, looking pretty! Of Porto, Portugal.

  • Happy to be in the Winter 2021 issue of The Georgia Review with a new essay, "Is the First Technological Question the Question of Nipples?"

  • How does one read like a reader? What are the postures? For students learning remotely this spring (& for any interested readers) I recorded these interviews.

  • I painted a new mural, fourth in a series featuring short poems by women:

  • What is this time, anyway? For Image:

  • This is for the book of consolation, after the book of desolation:

  • I'm honored! Jonathan Galassi, guest editor of Cagibi's print Omnibus! Anthology 2019, chose to include my work:

  • "On Memory With No Devices," was nominated for this year's Best of the Net Anthology. Thanks, Cagibi!

  • My essay "Copper Copper Wheels Bronze" is in the new/first issue of COASTnoCoast. And it's weird!

  • Here's a pic of my third mural in a series featuring short poems by women:

  • I wrote Coming of Age as Coming into a Digital Existence:

  • Painted a new mural with "Psyche's New Hairdo," by this poet:

  • Thrilled & intrigued to be heading to Art Farm soon...

  • In which I recommend Elsie Piddock to the POTUS:

  • "Where we live it is 'very dusty,' and loss is added to loss."

  • Here's "American Weather," in full.

  • Hey Folly got a lovely shout-out from a fantastic artist here:

  • I'm honored to have an essay in the latest issue of VQR.

  • I pitched my tent with the new primitives:

  • Medium picked up my "Letter to a Stranger:"

  • A little pregnancy poem:

  • I love Off Assignment's "Letter to a Stranger" series. Here's mine:

  • Going public with this mural thing:

  • What I'm Reading:

  • I'm happy to announce a second year of literary events for Mountain Fold Books and now (taDA!) café. Poetry! Hip-hop! Craft talks! Community-wide through-readings! A comic-book drawing class...

  • In which this dope poet flirts with me:

  • My Stoner's Laundry photo essay is on the radio, over at The Big Something.

  • Sometimes a color is medicine. Here's my review of "The Long Shadow of Chernobyl."

  • "Nocturne" is now bolted to a wall courtesy of Ridgway's Alley Poetry Project, in the pretty Uncompahgre Valley. Thanks!

  • Thanos Gogos translated "[The Chapter of the Rending in Sunder]" into Greek for Thraka. Thank you so very much!

  • I'm co-curating Mountain Fold Book's inaugural reading series. The other night a number of young deaf poets performed work in ASL, without English translation. As Marina Eckler said, it was "absolutely radiant." Read our event schedule here:

  • I'm so grateful for Daneen Bergland's brilliant attention to Hey Folly in Propeller Magazine.

  • "Dear Joshua" was named notable in the 2014 edition of The Best American Essays.

  • I'm pleased as punch to be a part of this. You're looking good, Mountain Fold Books.

  • My Stoner's Laundry photo essay, once more.

  • I'm humbled and honored to be included here. I've found so many poems I love on this site.

  • "Palisades Kepler" is in the Boston Review. Nice!

  • Joshua was like that tree.

  • "Dear Joshua" is up at Wag's Revue. "A lot of talk's / plain scarred song."

  • I will always love you, Stoner's Laundry. Thanks, Hairpin.

  • Some notes on motherhood and writing:

  • A "living review" of Hey Folly by Andy Stallings.

  • Here's my letter to the editors of Thermos about putting together Hey Folly.

  • I've got writing up every day this week on the log for Thermos Magazine. Thank you, Thermos!

  • An excerpt from points 121-22 made their way over to "The Short Form," a most beautifully designed site. Look at that type!

  • "It Startles" is up at Verse Daily.

  • In Defense of the Dumb Phone, part the second, in which I try to call your bot:

  • In Defense of the Dumb Phone, part the first.

  • Before it's over, you'll have heard from everyone. Here's my "Next Big Thing".

© MARY MARGARET ALVARADO
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