Author: Jordi Alonso

Jordi Alonso graduated with an AB in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing from Kenyon College in the spring of 2014. He currently is a PhD candidate and Ridgel Fellow in Poetry at the University of Missouri and has been published or has work forthcoming in The Southampton Review, Mountain Gazette, Kenyon Review Online, Roanoke Review, The Lyric, and other journals. His first book, a collection of erotic poems inspired by Sappho entitled Honeyvoiced was published by XOXOX Press and can be found here: http://www.xoxoxpress.com/product/honeyvoiced/.

2015, Archives, September 2015, The MFA Years

“‘Passion Without Flesh, Love Without Climax’”

September 14, 2015September 23, 2020 Jordi Alonso

Image: Reji For the last few weeks, I had not gone to sleep before 4 a.m. on most nights. A poet going to bed late is, of course, no big deal. Edna St. Vincent Millay once left a note for her housekeeper saying not to wake her because she’d been up working until 5 a.m.; … Continue reading “‘Passion Without Flesh, Love Without Climax’”

2015, Archives, May 2015, The MFA Years

Performing Poets

May 29, 2015September 23, 2020 Jordi Alonso

Imagine you’re a young chef, about to leave Le Cordon Bleu after having studied under some of the best gastronomers the world has to offer, and, just as you’re sent off to practice your art, you realize that nobody taught you the proper way to set a table. Sure, it’s not essential to know whether… Continue reading Performing Poets

2015, Archives, March 2015, The MFA Years

So You’re Waiting to Hear Back from MFA Programs: Post Application Advice With Jordi Alonso

March 14, 2015September 23, 2020 Jordi Alonso

What did you do to get through the post application period? Applications (mostly due in January and February) happened right in the middle of the busiest weeks of my semester at Kenyon, as the senior creative project that would let me graduate with this lovely clause appended to my English Major: with an emphasis in… Continue reading So You’re Waiting to Hear Back from MFA Programs: Post Application Advice With Jordi Alonso

2015, Archives, January 2015, The MFA Years

First Semester: A Villain Poet, A Panic Attack, and Two Days at the Beach

January 7, 2015September 23, 2020 Jordi Alonso

I came to the Southampton MFA through their summer conference. When it came time to apply to programs last winter, during my senior year at Kenyon, applying to the program that hosted a week-long festival where I’d met life-long friends and mentors and was so close to the beach, made perfect sense. I knew, of… Continue reading First Semester: A Villain Poet, A Panic Attack, and Two Days at the Beach

2014, Archives, September 2014, The MFA Years

“And now, to delight my friends, I shall sing beautifully.”

September 6, 2014January 12, 2021 Jordi Alonso

Eros has informed, propelled, and guided my poems, my literary ambitions and my life up to this point. It has influenced the languages I’ve studied for the past five years, the poets I’ve read, the people I’ve pursued, and the MFA programs I applied to during my last year at Kenyon College. As writers, we… Continue reading “And now, to delight my friends, I shall sing beautifully.”