Adam and I co-hosted a Brooklyn to Baltimore holiday Skype party last night.
The party last night was really great and lovely and we somehow pulled it off better than I expected, but the part that really killed me was talking to all of my old roommates and all of my close friends via skype all night during our concurrent parties.
Getting texts to “let me in” alongside texts like “hey come back to the computer because ______ just showed up!” was so perfect. If the world had ended, that would have been how I wanted to go.
Parlor Issue 1 is an online collection of 4 poems by 8 writers. Writers were paired up and asked to write a poem based off of a title prompt without knowing who their partner was.
Exquisite corpse art was invented in the 1920s by the Surrealists as a parlor game. The first player would write on a sheet of paper, fold it over to conceal part of their piece, and hand the paper to the next player. The players would only find out what the other players wrote when the poem was finished.
After a bit of thorough Gmail correspondence with myself being the middlewoman between partners as they wrote their parts, the poems are now finished and published. I hope you enjoy Issue 1.
Sarah Jean Alexander is a writer from Baltimore. She is the author of ‘I imagine you in your house, cleaning your chest’. She makes Booze Art. She is currently editing a collaborative poetry collection, Parlor, and her newest collection of poetry is due for release in…
i am proud of my wife and her accomplishments. our marriage works because we support each other unconditionally and feel no “jealousy” about each others’ “successes,” like when sarah jean receives accolades from peers and independent reviews, or when michelle branch replies to my tweets.
my beautiful wife, sarah jean alexander, wrote and mailed 6 index card poems. this isn’t the one i got in the mail today, but it’s the one that “got” me the most.