FishWife is available for preorder!
FishWife is available for preorder!
Hi! I’m Alysse. I’m a writer, Associate Editor of Pilgrimage Magazine, and Associate Professor of English at Colorado Mountain College.
FishWife
a woman who sells fish : a rough & rude woman : a vulgar, abusive woman : a course-mannered woman who is prone to shouting : also a full-length poetry collection forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press, March 2024. Click here to read three poems and a little about the writing of the book.
FishWife was a finalist for the 2022 Barrow Street Book Prize, the 2022 Antivenom Poetry Award from Elixir Press, the 2022 Ghost Peach Press Book Contest, a semi-finalist for the 2021 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, a semi-finalist for the 2021 and 2022 Perugia Press Prizes, and made it to the top 10 in the 2022 Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize.
Pentimento
Pentimento is an alteration in a painting, evidenced by traces of previous work, showing that the artist changed her mind as to the composition during the process of painting. Pentimento is Italian for repentance; it’s also a chapbook available from Gold Line Press.
Elsewhere
Author page at Black Lawrence Press
Interview on WYCE Electric Poetry
Contributor Spotlight interview at Midwestern Gothic
Profile at Smith College Alumnae Poets
Profile at Colorado Poets Center