...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 Disembodied Staircase, 2020 - Gyroscope Review
Father, I stand at the edge, Tahlequah 2020 - Comstock Review
2020, Vox Viola (2020 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
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 (* 2017 Pushcart Nominee)
The Crone Who Appears in My Dream 2016 - Stirring: A Literary Collection
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
Urban Princess, The Fullness of Elephants - Elsewhere Lit
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 artist. She especially likes math, black tea, felines, and trees. Her poems have been published in numerous journals and anthologies and been nominated for the Orisons Anthology (2016), A Best of the Net (2018), and the Pushcart (2017 & 2019). She placed 3rd in the 2019 Poetry Superhighway contest. Alicia reads for Tinderbox Poetry Journal.
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