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Work by Alyssa Perry

Alyssa Perry Work

*This poem originally appeared in Poetry Northwest in 2017.

About the Poet

Alyssa Perry
Alyssa Perry‘s first book, Oily Doily, is forthcoming from Bench Editions in fall 2024. Her writing has appeared in Annulet, Fence, the Experimental Sound Studio, Mercury Firs, and other publications and journals. Perry is an editor at Rescue Press and poetry editor at Cleveland Review of Books. She teaches at the Cleveland Institute of Art. This poem originally appeared in Poetry Northwest in 2017.

Related Event

    • Alyssa Perry will join poets Tia Brown and Thom Eichelberger-Young at a GREEN SPACE Summer Reading hosted by Joe Hall from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, August 17th at Chapin Parkway near Potomac Avenue (use 137 Chapin Pkwy for GPS apps). As with all GREEN SPACE events, the reading will be followed by a Zine Swap & Sale open to anyone on the indie publishing scene. Free and open to the public.

The Poem of the Week feature is curated by literary legacy awardee R.D. Pohl.