Alina Stefanescu
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Alina Stefanescu
@alinaetc.bsky.social
poet. writer. editor. reviewer. translator. corrupted bibliomaniac. exists in romanian and alabamian. hybrid in she/her dreams. self-deleting. self-ghosting.

www.alinastefanescuwriter.com
rain, music, bassists, and a tribute to one of Birmingham’s music legends who passed away
December 19, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Another will smash the prison register, Another will smash the doors of the jail.
Another will wipe from our thin shoulders The dust and blood fallen from our necks.
—Péguy
December 18, 2025 at 12:53 AM
🖤
November 14, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Michel Auder's "Seduction of Patrick" (1979) starring Gary Indiana and Viva is opening at the O-Townhouse in LA tonight, November 14th as part of the “Savage Men” exhibition. 🖤
November 14, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Walla Walla and Bataille’s solaire. 🙃
November 14, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Evergreen.
November 13, 2025 at 12:03 AM
breakfast was delicious
November 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I’m going to make a poem out of nothing.
You and I will be the protagonists.

- Luis Alberto de Cuenca
November 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Finding a form.
November 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
With you in the margins, Trevor. :)
November 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
The perfect brushstrokes of this poem by Elizabeth Willis.
November 9, 2025 at 4:06 AM
I sometimes think of my kind of autobiographical writing as spider's work, as pulling big glistening web out of one's very body. . .

— Edmund White, The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir
November 8, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Thank you to the Piggly Wiggly parking lot for hosting my sad thoughts on too much Kierkegaard and a rainy Friday and the intractable parts of life that are not literature. 🖤
November 8, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Radu taking Bataille’s side on this.
November 8, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Incredible book.
November 8, 2025 at 1:29 AM
In times past, poets had a sixth finger on each hand
to better endure the ache of writing.

- Nasser Rabah, “Meditations”
November 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
This photo was taken by Dana Matar— and the words are used as an epigraph by Hans Blumenberg to his fantastic book, The Readability of the World.
November 7, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Up to your honeybasket hilts in her ore—or else Death? for yes
how gentle it is to go swimming inside her the secret swimming

- Anne Carson, "Mimnermos: The Brainsex Paintings"
November 7, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Lydia Davis' "Revise: 2", for anyone who is revising.
November 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Dawdled by collaging my Halloween costume with the markings above particular entries Kierkegaard made in his journals near sections that later became STAGES OF LIFE. K. queered so many things it still blows my mind.
November 7, 2025 at 4:03 AM
November 7, 2025 at 3:57 AM
treasuring this treasure on close reading edited by @johannawinant.bsky.social and Dan Sinykin. Last night was all Berlant and Ashbery vibes by Brian Glavey. Tonight will be more Berlant.
November 7, 2025 at 3:56 AM
My “dulce periculum” vs. Kierkegaard’s “perissem nisi periissem.”
November 4, 2025 at 5:51 PM
In a letter to Leonor Fini, Jean Genet celebrated her “indestructible ambiguity” -- and this strikes me as a wonderful compliment which Fini rightfully earned.
October 26, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Well, Eliot Weinberger was wrong about nationalism and ethnocentricity but right about poetry.
October 22, 2025 at 2:50 AM