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Alina Stefanescu

@alinaetc.bsky.social

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poet. writer. editor. reviewer. translator. corrupted bibliomaniac. exists in romanian and alabamian. hybrid in she/her dreams. self-deleting. self-ghosting. www.alinastefanescuwriter.com

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · Sep 8

Grateful beyond words to Candice Daquin for reviewing my heresies for @worldlittoday.bsky.social, and to @sarabandebooks.bsky.social for publishing the book itself and to @kristenmiller.bsky.social for everything that holds it together. 🖤

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My Heresies by Alina Stefanescu

Sarabande Books. 2025. 118 pages.

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Karen Palmer @karenpalmer.bsky.social · 7m

This event is on Sun at @peoplesbooktakoma.com. My daughter @erinpalmerdc.bsky.social will be my conversation partner. She lived the story of our harrowing disappearance, as well, and I suspect the questions will be fire. Come join us!

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Karen Palmer for She’s Under Here

“Once upon a time, I disappeared.” So begins Karen Palmer’s harrowing and redemptive memoir, She’s Under Here. In 1989, shortly after her second marriage, Palmer and her new husband quit their jobs…

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 6m

The land was there before us
Was the land. Then things
Began happening fast. Because
The bombs us have always work
Sometimes it makes me think

- Lorenzo Thomas, "Inauguration"

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Us has: Lorenzo Thomas' "Inauguration" — alina Ştefănescu

Inauguration The land was there before us Was the land. Then things Began happening fast. Because The bombs us have always work Sometimes it makes me think God must be one of us. Because Us has save...

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 6m

I think so

Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 17h

Enough of acting the infant who has been told so often how he was found under a cabbage leaf that in the end he remembers the exact spot in the garden and the kind of life he led there before joining the family circle.

- Samuel Beckett, The Unnameable

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 17h

❤️ can't wait to see you there and hopefully bring light, however slight, Jen.

Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 22h

Exactly this.

Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 22h

O! My bad! I forgot to add "the curve of my g" . . . 🫶

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Sarabande Books @sarabandebooks.bsky.social · 22h

⚡️ZINE LUNCH!⚡️presents “P. S. ‘I Meant To Tell You’: The Postscript Zine” a free, virtual workshop with @alinaetc.bsky.social this Friday, October 10, at 12 PM EST, sponsored by Zine Machine and streaming live from Set & Setting Bookstore in Louisville, Kentucky!

Link in bio to register—it’s free!

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 23h

This Friday, a free @sarabandebooks.bsky.social zine workshop for yr lunch hour. My heart in that postscript. 🖤 We will wander through John Berger, little birds, and Rosa Luxembourg to write a p.s. zine. Register below. Come do words with me.

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Dorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social · 1d

"In 1922, Alice B. Toklas stood at the doorway. I willed Lan Thao to take their place."

Lana Lin on the cover of THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM, at @literaryhub.bsky.social.

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A New Autobiography: On Re-Envisioning Gertrude Stein’s Classic Cover

During the pre-vaccine summer of 2020, I sat behind a long wooden table that my partner, H. Lan Thao Lam, had recently installed for me across from the fireplace in a former sawmill to which we had…

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 1d

In the forest is a monster
It has done terrible things
So in the wood it's hiding
And this is the song it sings
Who will love me now? Who will ever love me?

One day I will write about my lives with PJ's phenomenal music. 🖤

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Who Will Love Me Now?

YouTube video by PJ Harvey - Topic

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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 1d

Just in time to kick off your October, we have another interview from an author-translator duo longlisted for the NBA for Translated Literature! We spoke to Vincenzo Latronico and Sophie Hughes, author and translator of PERFECTION. Read it here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

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Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · 2d

Very lucky to have a poem from my “Guide to Interpreting Dreams” series in the finale issue of Gigantic Sequins, alongside a stunner by @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social

Guide to Interpreting Dreams V
FRANCES KLEIN
You demand soup.
You crumple saltines over my bowl just the way I don't like it. At the magpie's rattle, you send me to tend to our child. Claws scratch my arms as I lift him from the cradle; I stoop for a kiss, and my mouth fills with beak. Outside, the sky is end-days yellow, and you answer each plea with a turned back. We have had the frogs and the hail. We have sprayed blood from the patio furniture, our bodies anointed with ointments for the lice and boils.
When the long darkness breaks, I know what comes next— but you hunch over your soup, unmoved. In the crib, silence where there should be song.

A list from the back of the issue showing Stefanie Kirby and Frances Klein

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Stephanie Insley Hershinow @sinsleyh.bsky.social · 1d

It’s come to my attention that some of you don’t know/forgot that Bari Weiss dated Kate McKinnon. This is a crucial element of her lore.

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 1d

An event at Torn Page Parlor in celebration of October's full moon. Registration below.

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Poem Songs with No Land, Oliver Ray & Steven Taylor

Poem Songs in Performance

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 1d

And that's why GDP is an absolute bullshit metric for gauging the "prosperity" of an economic system. GDP measures how well the billionaires are doing, and it ignores what AI costs the average resident or their communities. Fuck billionaires. Fuck AI. And fuck GDP.

We need a universal income ASAP

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 2d

"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."

America is now one big bet on AI

It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

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Joseph Lezza @josephlezza.com · 1d

The thing I love about European men is that they’re either dressed for a runway show or for space travel. There is no in-between.

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 1d

I read it more as peak New Narrative xperiment in living, and a wonderful companion to Robert Gluck's JACK THE MODERNIST, forthcoming from NYRB? Per imagining a future that emerges in "blab" & co-creation of language for present. A space made space for radical queering. Which is so timely.

Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 1d

Yes! Agree!

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 2d

Honey, look, it's a gorgeous final copy of TERRY DACTYL, out on November 11 from @coffeehousepress.bsky.social🎉🎉🎉 Book launch on Saturday, October 25, 3 pm at the Seattle Art Museum, and you can preorder signed copies from Elliott Bay Book Company, or preorder from your favorite indie, get ready 💎⚡✨

Bright magenta cover with black border. Floating open mouths in magenta, with tongues out and teeth visible, TERRY DACTYL TERRY DACTYL TERRY DACTYL in one of the mouths. Floating iridescent sparkling glitter pills in spot gloss like jewels. Title at top of black border, author name at bottom, on the side a blurb from Sarah Schulman, "The historical novel on acid"

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 2d

❤️ Alyssa.

Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 2d

There is no middle ground.
There is our empty bench.
There is the stoop of pigeons.
Either I have been alone
Every hour of my life or
Never once, not even
One moment, and the mist rising.

- Donald Revell, "Senesco Sed Amo"

20 year old on a train writing in notebook

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 2d

Menippus and Lucian
Be with me now as I
Feel my way among
Misted pillars and ghosts
Of breath on upper Broadway.
A quick kiss in the crosswalk is
More to me than mankind.

- Donald Revell, "Senesco Sed Amo"

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 2d

Click does the trick. You find my words dark. Darkness is in our souls, do you not think? Flutier. Our souls, shamewounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more.

- James Joyce, Ulysses 🖤

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 2d

pull down and pulverize that subaltern’s tower, and make a little heap of dust of it

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