selected poems:

“Sacred Bath Bomb” - American Poetry Review
”Our People Don’t Believe in Tears” - Thrush (Best New Poets nominated)
”Meanwhile” & “Now That I Am in Reykjavik & Can Think” - Wax Nine
”Vulnerability Engine” & “I Forgot What I Returned For” - b l u s h
”Take Care” - the tiny
”Route 1” & “Hard People” - swamp pink
”Cereus” - Peach Mag (Pushcart Prize nominated)
"Re: Eros" & "Toska" - American Poetry Review
”Daylight Saving” - Prolit
”Impervious Third” - Hot Pink
"Composure" - Cosmonauts Avenue
”Dura” - Meduza
”Hot & Heavy” - Journal of Compressed Creative Arts
”This Day Is A Wash” - Dusie
3 Poems - Elderly
"Alight" - Queen Mob's Teahouse
"Q Train Poem" - Sea Foam Mag
"Ace of Cups" - Vagabond City Lit

in print:

Jewish Currents, winter/spring 2022

other writing:

Alina Pleskova on “Our People Don’t Believe in Tears” in Poetry Society of America

Review of Jameson Fitzpatrick’s Pricks in the Tapestry in Poetry Project newsletter

Essay on Linda Gregg in Ordinary Plots

Interview with H.R. Webster in Flypaper Lit

Conversation with Raena Shirali in Adroit

chapbook:

What Urge Will Save Us was published by Spooky Girlfriend Press in 2017. The chapbook is no longer available from the publisher; reach out if you’d like a free or pay-what-you-want copy in print or PDF. (There are copies on Amazon, but all of that $$ goes directly to them.)

“In Alina Pleskova’s What Urge Will Save Us fever, competing economies of intimacies, work, and cultural expectation circulate together around a speaker who resists definition(s). Off-handed insight and candor brew an extremely subtle defiance here, allowing Pleskova to ask in subways, on sidewalks, of partners and friends all the gorgeous questions about how to resist and persist.” - Cynthia Arrieu-King

“Fierce like the history of poetry itself, Alina Pleskova gives us poetry that explores how relations, love, and even failed love are where the real answers await. I would read anything she writes, a poet who gives the world back to us with her brilliant, assertive poems. Say Thank You Alina and BUY THIS BOOK!” -CAConrad

interviews:

American Poetry Review podcast with Elizabeth Scanlon
The Last Word podcast with Cynthia Arrieu-King
Line Break podcast with Bob Sikora & Chris Corlew
Another F—-ing Writing Podcast with Tyler Dempsey
MAYDAY magazine with Caroline Shurtleff
12 or 20 Questions Series, by Rob McLennan
fields magazine, by Amy Saul-Zerby
The Cheburashka Collective: New Poetry of the Post-Soviet Diaspora in Meduza, by Hilah Cohen
‘bedfellows’ journal co-founders carve out a space in the literary world for their contributors in Artblog (w/ Jackee Sadicario), by Levi Bentley

reviews:

in Tinderbox Poetry Journal by Alisha Bruton
in Sage Cigarettes Magazine, by Nicole Yurcaba
in Ploughshares, by Kimberly Ann Southwick
in Glass Poetry, by John McCracken
in Five:2:One, by Alex Simand

etc:

Stand-Out June 2023 Poetry Collections - Read Poetry
Toska - Goodreads
What Urge Will Save Us - Goodreads
Writer of the Week - Maudlin House