Alicia Mountain

Alicia Mountain is the author of the collection High Ground Coward (University of Iowa Press), which won the Iowa Poetry Prize, and the chapbook Thin Fire (BOAAT Press). She is a lesbian poet, critic, and educator based in Denver and New York. Keep up with her @HiGroundCoward.

Reading List

All Our Aggregate Flu Shots

Alicia Mountain  | 
Issue 68.1 Fall 2019

Ye olde space heater gets some exercise. I sit at the head of a bed or the foot of a table, liquored up, cleaned up nice. When haven’t I donned gay apparel? I’d do a lot of things for some stuffing: a body cavity to fill. Yuletide and I finally remember to get that mole […]

Exothermic Reactions

Alicia Mountain  | 
Issue 68.1 Fall 2019

I. The men who have too much in their garages will disregard your wrapping-papered gift. Eventually the only way to feel the present is hot air balloon, is flight or speed, the racetrack thrust. That other life in which—just momentarily—he is the stuntman for himself, vicarious. II. She said the right voice could run a […]