...You have waited
all your life to remember your home, lifted,
to sit quietly in your own garden, humming.
- from "Opening of the Heart" by Alicia Elkort
Published Poems
The Never Child, 2022 - Sheila-Na-Gig
The candle lives where the past burns, 2022 - Rise Up Review
It began with a flower in bloom, 2022 - Rat's Ass Review
I am fashioned from a gourd, 2022 - Minyan Magazine
I drank black tea with honey and wondered, 2021 - Rust + Moth
Now is the Time for the World to Know, 2021 - Poetry Superhighway
A Girl Needs Her Mother, 2021 - Anti-Heroin Chic
The Disembodied Staircase, 2020 - Gyroscope Review
Father, I stand at the edge, Tahlequah 2020 - Comstock Review
2020, Vox Viola (Pushcart Nominee)
Grandma sips black tea, The Intimacy of an Avocado 2020 - The Wild Word
If I Had A Son 2020 - A Minor Magazine
Scheherazade’s Reflections On Her Wedding Night 2020 - Corvid Queen
Sonnet for Icarus’ Older Sister Who Would Have Invented the Aeroplane Had She Not Been Married Off for Gold. Also She Can Divine the Future. 2020 - Gingerbread House
The solar plexus chakra is associated 2019 - Jet Fuel Review
The Time Ray Reached Across the Table For the Potatoes and His Mother Sliced Him With a Steak Knife - 2019 Jet Fuel Review
A Tale Not Told 2019 - Gingerbread House (Best of Net Nominee)
A Blessing 2019 -Poetry Superhighway Contest (Third place winner)
If the Rudeness of Life is Inescapable, In Praise of a Broken Sidewalk 2019 - Is It Hot In Here Or Is it Just Me?: Women Over Forty Write on Aging, Beautiful Cadaver Project
Grandmother says "if I were twenty I'd burn my fucking bra" 2018 - The Hunger Journal
Inside Every Story 2018 - The Hunger Journal (Best of the Net Nominee)
Medusa 2019 - Journal Nine
Cutting Diamonds 2019 - Tinderbox Poetry ReviewThe Sparrow, You Don't Have To Be Good 2018 - Gone Lawn
When Courage Finds Me 2018 - Califragile
Lilith 2017 - Glass: A Journal of Poetry
Galaxies,* Savior, She runs to the end of time in pink stilletos 2017 - Altadena Poetry Review (* Pushcart Nominee)
Gretel 2016 - Fickle Muses
70 Years Later, Villagers Tell Father Desbois What They Saw in Yaktorov 2016 -Tinderbox Poetry Journal
You Must Not Disappear, A Hanging, Mermaid, Red 2015 - Menacing Hedge
Before We Break 2015 - Rogue Agent
Hay Truck 2015 - Glint Literary Journal
Collaborative Poems
We didn’t want to be queens Not then—
We wanted not to be hollowed, not to be buried
alive. & when they wrapped us in tarp & threw us to the ocean,
those boys/men who’d shamed us deep [water silence] into brittle bones
where we’d hidden our wounds we wanted
our mothers.~ from “Prom Queen[s]”
Prom Queen(s) 2019 - Missouri Review
Two Poets Email on a Sunday Afternoon, We Did Not Go To Prom 2019 - The Southeast Review
We Return to the Beginning [Teach Ourselves Consent] 2019 - underbelly
I found a bottle at the bottom of the ocean 2018 - The Georgia Review
Cornflower Paloma 2018 - The Georgia Review
Aunt Lucy Packs a Suitcase, One by One, A Small Metamorphosis or the Power of Seeing, invention of the [shrinking /growing/ myth or how I learned to shift & shift again, Why Death? Why Mud 2018 - They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing, Black Lawrence Press
A Small Metamorphosis or The Power of Seeing 2017 - AGNI
One By One 2017 - AGNI
In Conversation
Call and Response: Two Questions 2018 - AGNI Online
her breath became my breath — in conversation 2018 - The Georgia Review
Bio
Alicia Elkort is a poet, writer, and Life Coach. Her poems have been nominated thrice for the Pushcart, twice for Best of the Net and once for the Orisons Anthology, and her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She was born under the New Mexican sky and has returned to live amongst the juniper and pine where each day she is renewed by the still-life of blue and cloud. You can find out more about her coaching at Alicia Elkort Coaching.
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