Alex Carrigan Wants Shameless Name-Dropping Literature

Billy Collins Is Bored with My Dead Mother

after “The Lanyard”

either / or

after elliott smith

enten / eller

after søren kierkegaard

another poem about my ex girlfriend (gggec)

for the 100 gecs song “mememe”

ode to messy emotions

after Chen Chen

poem-to-go

after Naomi Shihab Nye

The Almost Never-Ending Villanelle

A contoured Villanelle using “How to Do Nothing” by Melanie Weldon-Soiset