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Allison Zaczynski

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deaf poet. WIP: poetry collection and biography. Yoga teacher. MFA student at @LesleyWriters . Poems in: @hooghlyreview @whollyhog Upcoming: @epistemiclit

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Allison Zaczynski

5 months

Hi #WritersofTwitter ! I’m Allison and write poetry. I’m also working on a biography. I’m hoping to complete a full-length poetry collection and biography manuscript by 2025. I love research. I wear hearing aids and sometimes write about my experience with my disability.

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5 months

can we bring back #WritersOfTwitter again? i would love to meet some new writer friends (& hype up the ones i’m lucky to know already) so go ahead and (re)introduce yourself! 👀💕

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4 months

Life goals: to just once get an acceptance via submittable. To see green just once. 😩

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I got an acceptance! 🎉

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2 months

Anyone else just… run out of steam for submissions? 😩

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I hate when I’m writing a poem and the concept of the poem is better than the poem itself 😩😭

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I just aimed really high for a submission 😬. Delusion is part of poeting, yes?

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Any other writers have an idea, take notes, and then a year later it’s like your brain refreshed and you somehow figure out how to write the thing?

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Writers: what work do you think people need to do before entering a Creative Writing MFA program?

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I keep trying to write prose poems and the feedback I always get is “This doesn’t work in this form.” So my question is: what makes a good prose poem? And can you share some examples?

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Poets: how many poems do you write in a month?

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Poets: how do you pick which poems you submit to each magazine?

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5 months

After all my stress, the poem I submitted for this got accepted 😭🎉

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5 months

So stressful when guidelines request only one poem in a submission! I only have one chance to get this right 🎲🎲

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5 months

Writers: How will you know you’ve “made it?”

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2 years

Since finding out about @TBQuarterly , I have written two poems about Taco Bell. I did not know this whole time that Taco Bell poetry was a genre I was dying to tap into. 🌮🔔

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4 months

Y’all, I just admitted to being a poet on my Facebook page 🫣

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4 months

Do you ever write something and you’re buzzing about it because you love it but like you need to get adrenaline sober so you can read it back with a real functional brain?

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4 months

If you’ve written a chapbook or full-length poetry collection, how long did it take?

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2 months

Excited to share that I have two poems in Issue 3 of @HooghlyReview

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15 days

Anyone else write the same poem over and over again? I get a little tired of myself when doing this, but maybe one of them will be good. 🤪

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I usually write something like three poems a month… but I wrote three just today 😱

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4 months

Writers: what changes did you make in your life when you decided to take your writing career seriously?

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3 months

Hey y’all I’m feeling a mix of excitement and dread about going to a poetry reading tonight. I’ve stopped going to readings and open mics after having bad experiences. I want to be a part of the poetry community but it’s not always easy as a person who wears hearing aids. 🧵

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5 months

Does anyone else have that one ex that, no matter how much time has passed, they still have a starting role in your poetry? 😩

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5 months

Do you ever… sometimes… allow yourself… to call yourself a writer? 🥴

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2 months

I wrote a happy poem, I think my seasonal depression might be over 🎉😰

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4 months

@chillextremist Oh thank god I’m not alone in this

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5 months

Another acceptance! 🎉🎉🎉

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2 months

I want to submit to a contest because I have poems I really want the poet judge to read. But the last few contests I submitted to, my poems didn’t even make it front of the judge. What to do?

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So stressful when guidelines request only one poem in a submission! I only have one chance to get this right 🎲🎲

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Allison Zaczynski

4 months

I’m adding to my writing bio that @TBQuarterly follows me on Twitter. The ultimate in clout.

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4 months

I am choosing to believe that a response to a submission taking longer than the average listed on Duotrope is basically an acceptance 🥴🤞

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5 months

What music artist makes poetic music?

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4 months

Y’all help me because I don’t understand — how are you supposed to make your entry as a writer if you constantly need to show that you’ve made it as a writer as evidence that you should be printed?

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In my unhinged poetry era 😈

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The way some poems just pour out like a purge 😩

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What’s the longest you’ve ever had to wait on a response from a submission?

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2 years

yup

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2 months

Excited to have two poems in here amidst so many talented writers 🎉

@HooghlyReview

The Hooghly Review (Murals issue open for Phase 1)

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Issue 3 is out now! 🥳💫 Check out 400+ pages of prose, poetry, drama, art, photography & more... We thank our beautiful contributors from all over the world for bringing this tome to life. 🙏 Feel free to share the h3ll out of this post. #WritingCommunity

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I had to take a mental break from submissions so I haven’t kept up. Who’s open for poetry submissions?

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Writers — where have you found support?

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Allison Zaczynski

4 months

Hi I’m Allison and my brand is to like say all the things my family told me not to say but in poetic form

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Y’all… the feeling of writing something that is literally brand new information to the world… is exhilarating in a way I can’t describe.

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3 months

Anyone else feel like a stage mom for their poems? I have one in particular I’m pushing so hard to publish and I’m like:

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2 years

I just wrote a poem. It’s not a good poem, but it needed to be said.

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Looking at my excel sheet of poems is like looking at my overflowing closet — I have nothing to publish! Nothing to submit! I am poemless!

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Writers! How do you develop clout? I’m half kidding, but open to suggestions 😂

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For the first time in a long time I’m writing a poem that feels fun 😂

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What poets/poems/collections should you read in order to be a “well-read poet?”

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Is there a collected poems of Sylvia Plath that isn’t edited by Ted Hughes? 🥴

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Do you ever just get so tired of yourself and your writing? 🥴

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6 months

Me as I click submit on my final poetry packet for the semester

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I am taking a steaming shit and calling it art and if any of you fuckos question it, I will bite like an animal at a petting zoo who does not wish to be pet but wants blood instead

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@MediumSizeMeech We knew Meg Ryan would save the romcoms, we just didn’t know she’d do it through her son

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Writers: do you snack while you write? And if so, what is your writing snack of choice?

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I have received the kindest rejection this week and also the kindest acceptance 🥰.

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2 months

I did it. Sent in the submission 🥴😩🤪🫠

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vague OMG OMG OMG the coolest thing ever just happened tweet

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Y’all I’m going to a BIG poetry event today and I’m so excited

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I just received the kindest rejection. I usually turn them into erasure Poetry but I can’t bring myself to do that to this one.

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Oh! I wrote a poem about this once 🫠

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Who takes poems about nature?

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Oh I just wrote a WHOA poem 😳

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I just received my contributor copy of Hog River Press! It’s beautiful! Thank you Kathryn and Julian! @whollyhog

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I’m writing the ugliest rawest poem I’ve ever written. I’m telling on everybody! 😳

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3 months

What’s your dream publication? Or contest?

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1 year

I just wrote the poem that my heart has been screaming and my brain has been silencing for 20 years. And somehow I have to gather myself and go to work after this.

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3 months

Always RT this one

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I am grateful to read again and again this beautiful poem by Lucille Clifton. It is featured today on !

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2 months

I’m so excited to be a part of Issue 3 with so many wonderful writers and friends 💚

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The Hooghly Review (Murals issue open for Phase 1)

2 months

The bards are here. Presenting the poetry contributors for Issue 3, dropping this April. #WritingCommunity #poetrycommunity #poetrytwitter #poetrylovers #PoetryMonth #poetry

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Another day of writing, another day of me excessively using the word “how” in my poems 🥴

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4 months

Ever revise a poem so hard you start sweating? 😅

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3 months

I’ve submitted to 35 literary magazines since November… tell me, what are the odds that I receive two rejections on my birthday 🙃🫠.

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2 months

How come National Poetry Month includes April Fool’s Day? 🥴 What’s the message here?

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2 months

I have written a surprising number of poems about fish 😳

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Writers: what is the ideal setting to write?

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5 months

Received my first acceptance of 2024!! 🎉🥰

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I’m getting closer to the dreaded 5000 following and I’m sad because I want to follow all writers I love us and our little community 😭💚

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4 months

Performing poetry surgery this morning 😩

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17 days

I just wrote an absolutely unhinged first draft of a poem that has the phrase “deaf vagina” and I’m not sure if I should just commit to it 🥴

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Is Pisces season also rejection season? 😩

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3 months

I went to a reading where someone said that narrative poetry was dead and I was like 😳 so I ask you: is narrative poetry dead?

Yup, super dead

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Nope, it’s still cool

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4 months

Why did I get an email with a subject that is EXACTLY what I was saying to myself in my head?! 😩😂😭

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1 year

Just wrote my first prose poem. I’ve been fighting with this poem since June until today I realized it wanted to be a prose poem. 🙈

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3 months

THIS!!

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2 months

And then it had the nerve to SNOW?!?!

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2 months

I wrote a happy poem, I think my seasonal depression might be over 🎉😰

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2 months

Relieved to see that most agree with me that narrative poetry is alive and well… but the 20ish people who disagree (and the editor himself) feels substantial.

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3 months

I went to a reading where someone said that narrative poetry was dead and I was like 😳 so I ask you: is narrative poetry dead?

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I find myself writing sarcastically in this biography 🥴 — it’s incredibly hard to write kindly about the villain of the subject’s story in the days before he exposed himself as the villain.

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4 months

I started writing a new poem titled “Paternity lore” and it’s got me really excited

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9 months

How to flirt as a poet: Send the object of your affection “The Connoisseuse of Slugs” by Sharon Olds

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4 months

Nooooo this is literally me 😭 help

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Creative nonfiction writers be like: I first ate a hotdog when I was six years old. I remember the taste, the scent, the summer. SECTION BREAK Hot dogs were invented in 1693 by Steven Hotdog. According to Scientific American, the hotdog is

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This is beautiful

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i celebrated signing my book contract as god intended: eating complimentary chips & salsa in a strip-mall mexican restaurant

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2 months

In the new @whollyhog Hog River Press issue at

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it’s always inherited trauma never inherited money

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How to earn an MFA

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Cats that are literally me

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Y’all… I think I might be… getting myself together 😳

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When you submit your writing to a journal, do you prefer themed submissions, or general submissions?

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Any tips or advice for getting out of the first person rut when writing poetry?

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Writing a poem that feels like giving birth. Like it’s changing me. 😰

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shapeshifter poems

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this poem / is a political poem / is a war poem —Lucille Clifton

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I need to remember this while I hoard my good poems

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Okay I sent out another poem for publication! *high fives self *

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Writers: does anyone have any suggestions or resources to help me write less dense and more natural biography? I want to tell a story but I feel like my writing is coming across as more of a history report 🤦‍♀️.

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