Alicia Mountain
Alicia Mountain is the author of Four in Hand (BOA 2023) and High Ground Coward (Iowa 2018), which won the Iowa Poetry Prize. She is a lesbian poet living in New York where she teaches in the Writer’s Foundry MFA Program at St. Joseph’s University in Brooklyn.
Watch Alicia Mountain’s 2024 reading with Scott Woods at the Chicago Poetry Center:
CPC Readings
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Haymarket House
Poetry by Alicia Mountain
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“I used to write a lot
about craigslist furniture.
I think I was trying
to build a life.
I got stood up for brunch
yesterday. It was so shocking
I didn’t even get mad,
I got all all your desires
are sacred about it.”
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“The gold March dawn
and below my window
a man carves his car
from the snow heap
plowed up around it.
So easy not to envy
the cold muscled task”