Alice White
@poetalicewhite
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Poet/human. Recent work in @3pennyreview @BestNewPoets @PoetrySociety @slowdownshow @swamp_pink @TheLondonMag
Arnac-Pompadour, France
Joined February 2021
Periodic moment of gratitude to Threepenny Review for publishing a poet from the slush pile who’d never been accepted for publication before.
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WHAT IS LIFE I have a poem in the new issue of @3pennyreview (alongside Sharon Olds and Charles Simic!). It’s the first one this too-scared-to-submit-until-age-40 poet has ever had plucked out of the slush pile by a journal. And what a journal. Thank you forever, Wendy Lesser!
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It took me until this year, age 41, to work up the brazenness it takes to submit to the Poetry Review, the brazenness I had in spades as a little girl. Thank you forever @AndreBagoo @iamrichardscott @PoetrySociety
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Still can’t quite believe this little poem has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Thank you @NewOhioReview 🖤
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I’m thrilled to have been selected for @BestNewPoets with this poem, first published in @BlackWarriorRev
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Had a poem accepted today after a full year of rejections. It’s past midnight in France…I am supposed to sleep how?.
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2 years ago @3pennyreview accepted this poem, despite the fact that I'd never had a poem accepted for publication. I didn't get an acceptance anywhere for a full year afterward, but this kept me going. I've said it before and I'll say it again: thank you forever, Wendy Lesser ♥️.
WHAT IS LIFE I have a poem in the new issue of @3pennyreview (alongside Sharon Olds and Charles Simic!). It’s the first one this too-scared-to-submit-until-age-40 poet has ever had plucked out of the slush pile by a journal. And what a journal. Thank you forever, Wendy Lesser!
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A beautiful book. “What is / the mind if not that surface upon which / the world can be endlessly rebroken?” - @MayaCPopa
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This…is…surreal. I’m the featured poet on today’s episode of The Slowdown, one of my favorite podcasts! Thank you for selecting my poem, Major Jackson, and for your thoughtful reflections on it. 🤍 @slowdownshow @Poet_Major
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Thrilled to have this poem in the new issue of @mslexia, selected by guest curator @jennaclake for the issue’s showcase theme: poison.
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I’m ecstatic to have been selected for @BestNewPoets 2023 with a poem in the Fall/Winter issue of @BlackWarriorRev ♥️
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I’m thrilled to have two poems in the June/July issue of The London Magazine, a journal older than the United States (!) that published John Keats, T.S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath…please excuse me while I pass out 😵💫 @TheLondonMag
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Last year I turned 40 and started sending poems out for the first time since I was rejected from an MFA program 14 years ago. In 2021 I had a poem in @3pennyreview, was a @breadloafwriter scholar, and got a Hawthornden fellowship. I also got 39 rejections. I’m most proud of them.
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“I didn’t get much good writing done, but I lived in ways that I’m still writing about.”. - @dlseuss on her time in New York in her early twenties.
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Thrilled to have been commended in the 2022/23 Magma Poetry Competition. Thanks @magmapoetry and @vkennefick ♥️
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I’m delighted to have a poem commended in the 2022/23 Magma Poetry Competition. There were 3400 entries! 😳 Thank you @magmapoetry & @vkennefick and congratulations to the winners and the four other finalists for the Judge’s Prize ✨.
Judge’s Prize - Commended:.Kathy Miles - Alpinism @Kathym974.Kizziah Burton - How I learned fast to speak the language of oppression.Alice White - Sl(e)ight @poetalicewhite.
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This, folks, was the LAST COPY of @CHotchandani’s debut poetry collection THE BOOK EATERS at #AWP24. ✨✨✨ I had to buy it. It’s the kind of book that, after you read it, you NEED to give it to everyone you know.
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I can’t believe I got to spend the past week learning from @brendashaughnes and I can’t believe I get to spend this week learning from @rocketfantastic …all summer I’ve been immersed in the worlds of their poetry. Thank you forever @breadloafwriter and the Rona Jaffe Foundation!
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After a full year of rejections, this acceptance felt extra warm and fuzzy! I’m thrilled to have a poem in the 25th anniversary issue of @CortlandReview ♥️
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I’m thrilled to have a translation of this poem (first published in @new_letters) featured in the beautiful Slovenian journal Literatura’s online anthology of contemporary American poetry. It’ll comprise 52 poems, with one published each week in 2024.
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Please allow me this one poem, no matter how many times I write it. @swamp_pink [CW: suicide]
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Happy to have this flooded missile silo sonnet in the 2023 @aestheticamag anthology. ✨ Many thanks to @cortlandreview for first publishing it.
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I’m wonderstruck at the response to this poem. I expected maybe eight likes, all from people in my life. Now I feel like I have a bunch of poetry friends out there. Can you all come visit me in France? Can we start a commune and read each other poems around the fire every night?.
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Thank you @thelondonmag for publishing this interrupted villanelle born from a time of deep depression mixed with the magic and wonder of my young daughter
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Oh my god I got a Hawthornden fellowship! I’ll get to spend a month living at a castle in Scotland writing poetry!!!.
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I’m thrilled to have this poem in the new @blackwarriorrev (and forthcoming in Best New Poets!). Many thanks to the BWR team and to @shareclaw for the introduction to this form, which allowed me to write about something I was previously unable to. Full poem in print issue.
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This means so much to me. Thank you @NewOhioReview 🥹.
Congrats to our Nominees for the Pushcart Prize! .Danielle Batalion Ola, @AshlenRenner, @TaylorByas3, Kimberly Johnson, @poetalicewhite , @KT_Landon . All nominated work can be read at
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I’m thrilled to have this sonnet in the spring issue of @newohioreview ✨ . Still waiting for my physical copy to make its way across the ocean to France, but the poem is up online in the meantime, with audio, at
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So lovely to be “Poet of the Day” in @aestheticamag’s creative writing newsletter w/my sonnet from their 2023 anthology (first published in @cortlandreview ♥️)…Aesthetica is the coolest damn magazine on the planet and I honestly don’t know how my name is anywhere near it!
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Happy to have this poem longlisted for Arts University Bournemouth’s Poetry Prize. @AUBCW @inspiredAUB
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Any residency advice? I’m about to do my first one. A month at a castle in Scotland (!) where I’m hoping to finish a project. Advice from writers who’ve done residencies with young kids at home would be especially appreciated…mine are four and six.
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Thanks @readalittlepoem 🤍.
“It's easy to kill without meaning to, / as easy as it is to die”. — Alice White (@poetalicewhite). This poem appeared in The Greensboro Review (@greensbororevie), Number 114, Fall 2023. Shared here with deep gratitude.
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Whenever I write a new poem I think “Okay, I’m still alive.” - Carl Phillips ♥️ @CommonplacePod @CPhillipsPoet.
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Happy Day After International Women’s Day 🫠 I’m thrilled to have this poem in the new issue of Barrow Street @barrowstreetinc
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Here’s a poem for every boy I ever crushed on (only a small fraction of whom could fit into this sonnet) with my sincere apologies to those who eventually returned my affections. Thanks @berlinlit for publishing it ✨
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I can’t recommend this poetry debut highly enough. THE BOOK EATERS by Carolina Hotchandani is so, so, beautiful. None of my words can do it justice. @CHotchandani @PerugiaPress
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I love you please don’t try to save me. 🖤 Thrilled to have this poem (and 2 others!) in the inaugural issue of @swamp_pink
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Okay, potential game-changer for 2022: instead of keeping my gigantic to-read stack by my bed, I’ll just keep a stack of the books I’ve FINISHED (one for now) plus the book I’m CURRENTLY READING. It feels so much better already! No overwhelm, just old friends, and one new one.
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Tonight I have my first poetry reading in 20 years…aka since this was me. I’m trying to channel the energy of the second photo, though. Send good vibes. My scream got lost in a paper cup there for a while. #breadloaf2021
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@ShikshaWrites 3 days and it was my first-ever acceptance, one year ago! Any journal that gets back to people so quickly is welcome to not take sim subs imo. And they pay $200/poem! They get a ton of submissions but I’m proof that anything is possible…good luck!.
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41 today, which means it’s been one year since I started sending my poems out…thank god for the don’t-give-a-fuckery that comes with aging. Let’s see how brave I get this year.
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Happy release day @CHotchandani! THE BOOK EATERS is a stunning debut weaving together reckonings of lost language—a father’s memories, a new mother’s thoughts—words lost and enduring, consumed and consuming. As @VChangPoet says, it’s “simply a gorgeous book of poems.” ✨
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@Srawgdhawra This will be one of those comments that I take time out to read again when I’m feeling low…thank you! 🤍.
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@harmoniant I’m from KC and my husband and I moved to France seven years ago on a whim after a decade in NYC (we’re in the Corrèze) and we love it. Godspeed!.
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Larry Levis, I’m on a train to Paris please don’t make me contemplate the void
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I never know what to count as my first kiss…here are both options in the inaugural issue of Writer’s Foundry Review 💋💋 @WFRLitJournal
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So touched to be a part of this special issue of @thedarkhorsemag honoring Douglas Dunn, who supervised my undergraduate dissertation by creative writing at @univofstandrews and brought me into the @StAnzaPoetry fold. Excellent pieces by @KathleenJamie and many others in here!
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Excited to read my poem that was a finalist in the 2022/23 @magmapoetry competition at an online event tomorrow at 2 pm ET (7 pm UK time) ✨.
TOMORROW Thu 1 Jun 7pm. Join us to hear some outstanding poetry reading from the winners of this year's Magma Poetry Competition. Book your FREE spot: @leoboix @lauriesmith_kcl @LisaDMKelly @fioan1 @davidsocialsp @SelinaRodrigu @EllaFrears.
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@emdashphillips My first workshop leader said “I’d like to see you writing poems of which you’re not the center.” I heard this as “Don’t write poems about yourself/your life.” Still feel guilty that I do.
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Here’s another poem of mine in the new issue of Coal City Review ✂️
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I was interviewed about my poetry and I survived! 😅 A very big thank you to Debbie Theiss and @flapperpress.
The Flapper Press Poetry Café invites guest editor Debbie Theiss to interview artist and poet Alice White. #flapperpress #poetry
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Can’t recommend this highly enough. It’s not too late to join and there are still pay-what-you can places available. 10-11 am UK time, all month. Thank you @ShareClaw and @kimmoorepoet 💛.
JANUARY WRITING HOURS TOMORROW! - .kickstart your year by joining me, Kim Moore and participants across the globe for an interactive hour of writing 10-11am EVERY day in January! .
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I’m so excited to be a finalist for @FrontierPoetry’s Global Poetry Prize ✨ Congrats to all the winners and finalists and a very big thank you to @megpieinflight and @AriaAber ♥️.
📣Announcing the winners of the 2022 Global Poetry Prize:. -Iqra Khan (@Iqra_K_).-Abigail Mengesha .-Carlos A. Pittella (@metaferal) .-Javier Sandoval. Congrats to these poets and our finalists in every region, and thank you to our judges! . Further info:
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Happy to have this minty, sickeningly floral sonnet in the current issue of Poetry Scotland. And thank you to @brendashaughnes for telling me that this was, in fact, a poem, at a time when I wasn’t sure if anything I wrote was actually poetry.
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@brendashaughnes’s poetry delights and destroys me. “What could be queerer than this queer tug-lust for what already is, who already am, / but other of it?” I’m thrilled to add The Octopus Museum to @PoetrySociety’s #thesealeychallenge book list ✨ @SealeyChallenge @AAKnopf.
Day seven of the #SealeyChallenge @poetalicewhite recommends 'The Octopus Museum' (@AAKnopf) by @brendashaughnes. ""What could be queerer than this queer tug-lust". Shaughnessy will take you on a fantastical, harrowing journey through a preposterous future that is all too now."
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@RosebudBenOni Here’s one in the latest @CortlandReview from a series of sonnets I’m working on
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Signing off Twitter for the next month. (If I say it, I’ll do it, right??) See you on the other side ♥️.
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@BeckyLTuch I got the same one. I guess they just decided to take the rejection out of the rejection letter? Just skip it, you know, the unpleasantness.
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Happy to have four poems in the new issue of Coal City Review, edited by my first poetry workshop leader (20 years ago!), the lovely Brian Daldorph at @univofkansas. Here’s one of them.
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Twitter, you’re so often described as a hellsite and I can see why—it’s part of why I avoided you for such a long time—but, thank you for being kind to me thus far. Thank you, strangers, for saying nice things about this poem. It makes this hellsite feel like a home.
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Yay @megg_bean !! 🥳.
Announcing the 2024 poetry cohort of Get the Word Out, a publicity incubator for early career writers. Read more: . @nadia870 @BrentAmeneyro @sabzi_k @megg_bean @DSmithSilva @jwindholz
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I never thought I’d be this happy to crush the soul of an eighth grader. Thank you so much for sharing my poem with your students, @BILudwig 🤍.
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@itsdbouts “Unfortunately, the piece is not for us.” Something about “not for us” just feels a bit harsh to me. I’d prefer simply “Unfortunately, we won’t be publishing this piece.” But I’m probably way too sensitive! 😂.
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Thrilled to be shortlisted for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award. The winning poet will be announced any day now, not that I’m obsessively checking my email or anything. 😬🙏 @AestheticaMag
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Just a quick note to say that the paid version of Lit Mag News is worth every cent.
Thank you to everyone who's supported this project! 🙏🙏 Lit Mag News readers are the absolute best! I'm having so much fun with this whole endeavor & I hope you're enjoying the ride along with me.❣️💫💫
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Reminder for poets who don't have a published collection yet: the @adroitjournal deadline for Djanikian Scholar submissions is Dec. 21. We want to read your poems!
The Djanikian Scholars in Poetry is OPEN!!! .Deadline Dec. 21st.
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@MonicaLJudge @3pennyreview Hear, hear! It took me a handful of decades to speak up but I’m getting there.
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@poetrybite @kenyonreview @rocketfantastic I believe this means you’re there with the excellent poet and human @carlingmcmanus.
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Wondering if anyone else about to attend #breadloaf2021 feels like they’re going to throw up….
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@LornaARose Thank you. 🤍 I got the acceptance while inadvisedly checking my emails between dreams and was too excited to sleep the rest of the night!.
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@JustSayMJ Brown lentils can sub in for any ground beef dish…spaghetti bolognaise, tacos, lasagna. Just season ‘em the same.
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