Cassandra de Alba's work has appeared in Big Lucks, Underblong, and Smoking Glue Gun, among other publications. Her chapbooks are habitats (Horse Less Press, 2016) and ORB (Reality Hands, 2018). She is an associate editor at pizza pi press and co-host at the Boston Poetry Slam at the Cantab Lounge.
Cassandra de Alba
Self-Portrait With Rabbit Ears And Seventeen
a girl in crooked bangs
hitting the high note
on a channel of half static.
telephone cord
triple-wrapped
around my wrist.
Cassandra de Alba
Self-Portrait with Rabbit Ears and Seventeen
a girl in crooked bangs
hitting the high note
on a channel of half static.
telephone cord
triple-wrapped
around my wrist.
outside the kind of sunset
they invented color swatches for.
the magazine says
we need to get contacts
if we’re going to get boys.
that we should draw
more attention
to our lips. fixate.
the ceiling fan whirs
like it’s gonna keep going
until the stars die out.
i put on more lip gloss,
think about eating
the sun. what attention
that would draw.
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Cassandra de Alba
What are 2-3 books (regardless of genre) that you’ve read over the last year or less that really blew your hair back?
Katherine Faw's Ultraluminous
Tommy Pico's IRL
Hanif Abdurraqib's They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us.
Could you cite a few “younger” poets who we may not necessarily be familiar with whose work you find particularly compelling?
The Virgin Suicides is aesthetically perfect.
Would you rather eat only roadkill for the rest of your life or have everyone else in the world sound like Gilbert Gottfried?
Does it count as roadkill if you run over a nice peach tree or something? Do I have access to a full spice cabinet? There are considerations here.