Alex Houen

I can’t take ‘X’ any more. I’ve always liked scrolling through posts of people I follow but 20% of my ‘feed’ is crap ads, I’ve had enough. I’ll retain this account and will check it occasionally, but I’ve moved to Bluesky @alexhouen.bsky.social Hope to see you there 👋

Poets ! you have all got one week …the clock is ticking sending my love to you 💚❤️💚

I’m in #Sydney / Gadigal country, for the first time in years, staying near where I grew up. It’s wonderful to be back. Been sketching the view from my balcony to take it all in

SEE YOU THROUGH, the poem-novel I wrote with Geoff Gilbert is now available for pre-order at a price cheaper than the RRP 🐙💐🙌 @brokensleep brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/g…

Anthropocene editor Charlie has a poem in issue 34 of Blackbox Manifold 💔🧏🪬🧊🍷 The poem features alongside new work by brilliant poets like @imogen_cassels and @lindaroseblack 🥰

So pleased to have four poems from my collection, STOAT, in this new edition of Blackbox Manifold! 🙏🖤🔆

'FAB lolly vase' by Kitty Shepherd, UK ceramic slipware artist #WomensArt #heatwave

⚡️BLACKBOX MANIFOLD 34 is now live!⚡️Poems by Kat Addis, Sascha Akhtar, @charliebaylis6, @imogen_cassels, Kimberly Campanello, Trevor Joyce, Corey Wakeling, G.C. Waldrep, and others. Reviews by Adam Piette, Olivia Boyle, and David Brazil blackboxmanifold.sites.sheffield.ac.uk

CALL OUT FOR SUBMISSIONS! @williekinardiii Lola Oh and @cloudscholar are excited to invite submissions for Magma 94: REMIX How will you interpret this theme? #magma #magmapoetry #poetrysubmissions More info & to submit: magmapoetry.com/call-for-submi… Image: Edson Ramos

A really impressive story about foxes, including the intrepid fox ‘Romeo’ who lived in The Shard. Long live the foxes! 🦊✊ theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/j…

Check out Alex Priestly's new situationist poems on Blackbox Manifold blackboxmanifold.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/alexpriestleyb…

Am excited to have received proofs for the poem-novel, SEE YOU THROUGH, that Geoffrey Gilbert and I wrote together. It dances on the crack between unlived life & what happens 👻🐙🐠🌋🍸, and will be published by Broken Sleep Books @brokensleep in September.

Looking forward to the Gillian Rose Memorial Conference next week at Swedenborg Hall, 18-19 June. Book here! kingston.ac.uk/about/events/t…

Lee Ann Brown reads from Thirdness with Katie Ebbitt and Ghazal Mosadeq Wed 18 June, 6 PM Meeting Room, 49 Great Ormond Street, London, WC1N 3HZ Informal gathering upstairs after Suggested £5

‘RAF surveillance aircraft have done more than 500 flights over Gaza since the war started. While they are officially concerned with searching for hostages, they have been particularly intense when the Israel Defense Forces are engaged in major offensives’ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Friends, a little announcement: we’re now accepting submissions year-round for a new essays feature. We want this to be a space for new and original thinking about poetry and poetics, but also about how poetry fits in or around our lives. We can’t wait to hear from you!

next tues week - @mariaxrose & i are reading poems at the iconic @BroadwayCinema for dandelion poetry come and say hello - it's free and open to all 💚💙

Poets at Keble presents... – a reading by Fred Moten Monday 28th April, 6pm keble.ox.ac.uk/teaching-resea… Free entry, no booking required, all welcome. Please spread the word!

Yes, why not?!: “Since students make up 40% of total “immigrant” numbers, why not remove from the statistics all except those who eventually stay?” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

I’m in Rhodes, Greece, and just convinced my daughter that these are some of the Parthenon marbles 💪#dadjokes