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Grief

Grief

A Poem Personifying Loss

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Alison Rose Reed
Jul 05, 2024
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Dear sexy people,

This past week has been unusually busy as I started a new job, so the promised backstory to “A Strip Club in Virginia” has been delayed by, well, a strip club in California.


A Strip Club in Virginia

Alison Rose Reed
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June 22, 2024
A Strip Club in Virginia

Dear sexy people, There is a story to this poem. It begins roughly two decades before I started writing it, traverses two entangled love affairs, constellates parallel lives, and ends with a new twist on the old Aristotelian mimesis debate—moving into the social and spiritual plane of divination to consider how sometimes, unbeknownst to us, poems prophesize the future.

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While I will post that piece of writing in the coming weeks, today I want to share another poem from my current project. If you would like to read “Grief” but do not have a paid subscription for financial reasons, please feel free to reach out and I will gladly send it to you. Trust me, I get it.

Below I enclose my first newsletter, “Death of a Gentleman,” in addition to “Grief,” since I was happy to see some new subscribers. I’m so very grateful to y’all for reading and sharing my work!

xx,

Alison

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Death of a Gentleman

Alison Rose Reed
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June 16, 2024
Death of a Gentleman

Dear beautiful people, I am excited to kick off this newsletter with a work in progress that I started drafting during a Sex Writing Workshop facilitated by the amazing Raechel Anne Jolie. I want to thank Raechel, whose memoir I loved so much I made a playlist...

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