Alizabeth Worley
@alizabethworley.bsky.social
Essays in Guernica, MQR Online, Post Road Magazine & elsewhere. I have CFS/ME & hEDS and my husband, Michael, has Cerebral Palsy. Writer, visual artist, parent.
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A Moment That You Couldn’t Tell: Riding the Gradient of the Lyric Essay
I In his poem “Because You Asked About the Line Between Prose and Poetry,” Howard Nemerov writes: Sparrows were feeding in a freezing drizzleThat while you watched turned to pieces of snowRiding a …
sites.lsa.umich.edu
By way of introduction, here's a piece in MQR Online I wrote about some of the things I like best:
sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/2024/05/...
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I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
November 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
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No Kings Provo
October 18, 2025 at 8:50 PM
No Kings Provo
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Salt Lake City Utah No Kings
October 18, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Salt Lake City Utah No Kings
Wonderful to wake up to this publication this morning! CRAFT is an incredible journal, and it's a delight to have my work there.
"…now I’m wondering, why have I refused myself the gravel of this memory until now, when I can remember so little of it all?" Beautiful flash-length meditation on a childhood experience by @alizabethworley.bsky.social at CRAFT: www.craftliterary.com/2025/09/10/w...
What I Want to Know by Alizabeth Worley - CRAFT
One day when I was little, I trespassed the aluminum gate that was next to our little orchard in search of a Frisbee or Nerf ball or some such thing that we had sent flying, accidentally, over the bar...
www.craftliterary.com
September 11, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Wonderful to wake up to this publication this morning! CRAFT is an incredible journal, and it's a delight to have my work there.
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A virulently white supremacist administration from top to bottom and if they all wore white sheets to work daily, a good chunk of the country and the entire mainstream press would shrug.
August 13, 2025 at 7:51 PM
A virulently white supremacist administration from top to bottom and if they all wore white sheets to work daily, a good chunk of the country and the entire mainstream press would shrug.
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Lovely. Good job to the young people of Circles and Ciphers. You can support their work here: circlesandciphers.org
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WE ARE ONE - C&C (MARKO STAT$, Pressure Baby R, RWE Neptune, 333 Jilla, Z Saj & Cassius)
YouTube video by Circles and Ciphers
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July 30, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Lovely. Good job to the young people of Circles and Ciphers. You can support their work here: circlesandciphers.org
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvzS...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvzS...
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ICE agents are harassing the courthouse volunteers who assist besieged immigrants
ICE agents are harassing the courthouse volunteers who assist besieged immigrants
"They want to be doing this with no witnesses."
www.motherjones.com
July 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
ICE agents are harassing the courthouse volunteers who assist besieged immigrants
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ICE attempted to enter the home of a woman with her children in Huntington Beach. However, the entire community, police department, and city council intervened and forced them to leave.
Keep fighting back ✊🏽
Keep fighting back ✊🏽
July 20, 2025 at 10:54 AM
ICE attempted to enter the home of a woman with her children in Huntington Beach. However, the entire community, police department, and city council intervened and forced them to leave.
Keep fighting back ✊🏽
Keep fighting back ✊🏽
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When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
July 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
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Letter: One wonders if some see Trump’s destruction of our world as justifiable because the end of days, and the return of Jesus Christ, is nigh. Why bother with responsible stewardship for the Earth — and its people — when it’s all about to end?
Letter: Is Jesus Christ bound to high five Utah lawmakers for a job well done?
Letter: Is Jesus Christ bound to high five Utah lawmakers for a job well done?
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May 30, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Letter: One wonders if some see Trump’s destruction of our world as justifiable because the end of days, and the return of Jesus Christ, is nigh. Why bother with responsible stewardship for the Earth — and its people — when it’s all about to end?
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Letters F to N in Jacobus Publicius' "mnemonic alphabet", 1482. Each object echoes a letter's shape, a technique used to aid memory. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/m...
Our attempt in emojis: 🖇🏹 🥐👌🏾 🎼🎏🐌🛏🕴🏻🎷 🎋💪🏿🎹 ⛩🎾👎🏾🍭🎗⚡️🌴⚓️🍕🦋🙅🏻🤸🏾💤
Our attempt in emojis: 🖇🏹 🥐👌🏾 🎼🎏🐌🛏🕴🏻🎷 🎋💪🏿🎹 ⛩🎾👎🏾🍭🎗⚡️🌴⚓️🍕🦋🙅🏻🤸🏾💤
May 12, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Letters F to N in Jacobus Publicius' "mnemonic alphabet", 1482. Each object echoes a letter's shape, a technique used to aid memory. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/m...
Our attempt in emojis: 🖇🏹 🥐👌🏾 🎼🎏🐌🛏🕴🏻🎷 🎋💪🏿🎹 ⛩🎾👎🏾🍭🎗⚡️🌴⚓️🍕🦋🙅🏻🤸🏾💤
Our attempt in emojis: 🖇🏹 🥐👌🏾 🎼🎏🐌🛏🕴🏻🎷 🎋💪🏿🎹 ⛩🎾👎🏾🍭🎗⚡️🌴⚓️🍕🦋🙅🏻🤸🏾💤
"I am missing
my selves sister
spread across seas"
my selves sister
spread across seas"
I’ve got another poem from my aquatic chronic pain project in the latest issue of The Indianapolis Review. Many thanks to @nataliesolmer.bsky.social for giving this poem a home!
theindianapolisreview.com/chronic-pain...
theindianapolisreview.com/chronic-pain...
Chronic Pain as Archipelago
I am missingmy selves sisterspread across seas like ancient constellationscalling sailors homecups and arrows swimming over skiesbut in risingtides I cannot find my ownbeginning or endwade through …
theindianapolisreview.com
May 12, 2025 at 7:41 PM
"I am missing
my selves sister
spread across seas"
my selves sister
spread across seas"
Pic my kid took of a dandelion, the fluff gathered from the day's rain. He said they looked like minecraft pixels.
May 11, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Pic my kid took of a dandelion, the fluff gathered from the day's rain. He said they looked like minecraft pixels.
I'm attending Indivisible's event, “No Kings! 6/14 Provo Protest + Flag Day Celebration” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
No Kings! 6/14 Provo Protest + Flag Day Celebration · Mobilize
Flag Day is June 14, 2025. This also happens to be Donald Trump's birthday. Groups all over the country are taking this day to protest in favor of democracy and against increasingly scary executive ab...
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May 8, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I'm attending Indivisible's event, “No Kings! 6/14 Provo Protest + Flag Day Celebration” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
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It's been 8 years since the iconic moment Tom Holland lip-synced "Umbrella" by Rihanna for Zendaya. 🎥
May 7, 2025 at 6:07 AM
It's been 8 years since the iconic moment Tom Holland lip-synced "Umbrella" by Rihanna for Zendaya. 🎥
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For those of you that missed it, here's Kamala's speech.
LIVE: Kamala Harris delivers first major address since leaving office
YouTube video by Associated Press
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May 1, 2025 at 10:52 PM
For those of you that missed it, here's Kamala's speech.
In light of this news, I've created a Utah County May Day event for Saturday, May 3rd at Provo Hall, from 1-2 p.m.
Let's get the referendum on the ballot and protest the Government takeover!
mobilize.us/s/oQV28i
Let's get the referendum on the ballot and protest the Government takeover!
mobilize.us/s/oQV28i
April 30, 2025 at 11:00 PM
In light of this news, I've created a Utah County May Day event for Saturday, May 3rd at Provo Hall, from 1-2 p.m.
Let's get the referendum on the ballot and protest the Government takeover!
mobilize.us/s/oQV28i
Let's get the referendum on the ballot and protest the Government takeover!
mobilize.us/s/oQV28i
I love everything Sarah Fawn Montgomery writes!
ABBREVIATE is out next week! Can’t wait for this hybrid study of smallness to be out in the big wide world!
April 30, 2025 at 1:05 AM
I love everything Sarah Fawn Montgomery writes!
it's fun tho
Artist Always Carries Around Sketchbook In Case He Feels Like Making Someone Uncomfortable
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April 28, 2025 at 12:48 AM
it's fun tho
“The reason it hasn’t remained wasn’t because it didn’t solve the problem,” Koven said. “It actually really hugely solved the problem. There weren’t any complaints, there were actually only praises. It just came down to finances and aesthetics.”
The hitch: admin said the poles were ugly.
The hitch: admin said the poles were ugly.
This new idea for saving birds from deadly collisions with buildings “really hugely solved the problem,” but there was a hitch.
This Utah ‘death zone’ for birds was fixed. Here’s why it’s back killing again.
This new idea for saving birds from deadly collisions with buildings “really hugely solved the problem,” but there was a hitch.
www.sltrib.com
April 26, 2025 at 6:52 PM
“The reason it hasn’t remained wasn’t because it didn’t solve the problem,” Koven said. “It actually really hugely solved the problem. There weren’t any complaints, there were actually only praises. It just came down to finances and aesthetics.”
The hitch: admin said the poles were ugly.
The hitch: admin said the poles were ugly.
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UPDATE: As of Wednesday morning, proponents of the repeal effort have now met the required threshold for signatures in four of the 15 senate districts required to let voters decide in 2026 whether to repeal the anti-union HB267.
Union referendum live updates: Effort to repeal Utah’s anti-union law has reached signature target in 4 senate districts
Live updates: Here's how close labor groups are to putting a referendum to repeal an anti-union law on Utahns' ballots in 2026.
www.sltrib.com
April 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM
UPDATE: As of Wednesday morning, proponents of the repeal effort have now met the required threshold for signatures in four of the 15 senate districts required to let voters decide in 2026 whether to repeal the anti-union HB267.
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At the #protest yesterday, I led 2 calls & responses & it felt so good! It was fun! If we can convince folks #protests are not boring/scary, but fun & the energy is so invigorating & motivating, we'd get more bodies out there. We need to focus more on that aspect even if that isn't the point.
April 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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April 19, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Dear representative,
This Easter Sunday, my request to you is simple:
Bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home.
As we consider Jesus of Nazareth, who was framed and denied due process, let us prioritize granting due process to all, and righting the wrongs of injustice.
democracy.io#!/thanks#%2F
This Easter Sunday, my request to you is simple:
Bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home.
As we consider Jesus of Nazareth, who was framed and denied due process, let us prioritize granting due process to all, and righting the wrongs of injustice.
democracy.io#!/thanks#%2F
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April 20, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Dear representative,
This Easter Sunday, my request to you is simple:
Bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home.
As we consider Jesus of Nazareth, who was framed and denied due process, let us prioritize granting due process to all, and righting the wrongs of injustice.
democracy.io#!/thanks#%2F
This Easter Sunday, my request to you is simple:
Bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home.
As we consider Jesus of Nazareth, who was framed and denied due process, let us prioritize granting due process to all, and righting the wrongs of injustice.
democracy.io#!/thanks#%2F