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Alexis Orgera

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Alexis Orgera's poems, essays, and reviews have most recently appeared in <emAnother Chicago Magazine, Black Warrior Review, Drunken Boat, Forklift Ohio, Memorious, and Prairie Schooner. She is the author of two books of poetry, How Like Foreign Objects (H_ngm_n Books) and Dust Jacket (Coconut Books). She can be found online at alexisorgera.com.
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Large White House Speaking by Mark Irwin

  • Alexis Orgera
  • April 23, 2014
Alexis Orgera reviews Mark Irwin's Large White House Speaking today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Sinead O’Connor and Her Coat of a Thousand Bluebirds by Neil de la Flor and Maureen Seaton

  • Alexis Orgera
  • June 8, 2012
It’s 1990. I’ve shut the door to my bedroom, like any self-respecting teenage girl, to listen to my new CD—the one I ordered for a penny from one of those…
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O Circular Philosopher

  • Alexis Orgera
  • December 9, 2011
The field is integral, too, to Dan Beachy-Quick’s Circle’s Apprentice—the field of vision, field of the empty page and of the populated page, field of self/ body/maker, absence of field.…
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The Last Poem I Loved: “Figures in a Landscape” by Gail Mazur

  • Alexis Orgera
  • August 2, 2011
Figure, noun, a person’s bodily shape or a person seen indistinctly, especially at a distance. A representation of a human in a drawing or a sculpture, a shape defined by…
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