Ali Liebegott

As a poet and writer in general I feel very grateful that I can just make a chapbook and that we don't…

— Ali Liebegott

I'm always struck with writing - I constantly feel like I don't know what I'm doing and I'm starting over.

— Ali Liebegott

Since becoming an alleged adult, I've always felt like I should exercise - or should at least want to exercise - and…

— Ali Liebegott

I'm always wondering what is the job that gives the writer the most amount of time to write. I still don't know…

— Ali Liebegott

“Shift #5 for Seamus Heaney a box of coconut water two cans of coconut milk so many looking for help some people…

— Ali Liebegott

When I see a room full of people pedaling away on stationary bikes, I fall into an existential spiral. It's confirmation that…

— Ali Liebegott

“Lots of people hate gay people. You can tell who they are because they start sentences with, "It's not like I hate…

— Ali Liebegott

I feel very discouraged with the state of gay and lesbian publishing because I don't feel like we're really welcome in the…

— Ali Liebegott

I'm a writer who stacks cat food for a living. It's true: I have a master's degree in creative writing, I've published…

— Ali Liebegott

“Who isn't interesting enough to help -- what forgotten woman sits in a lawn chair in her yard with a can of…

— Ali Liebegott

For me writing is so perplexing, because if we were playing ping pong and we weren't writing - twenty years later you'd…

— Ali Liebegott

“The daughter wants to turn the past on its back like a turtle or a roach, leaving those legs walking futilely through…

— Ali Liebegott

Sometimes I forget when I read a book that it didn't exist in English first.

— Ali Liebegott

There's something very soothing about the simplicity of doing what's right in front of you: paying the rent, buying groceries, and when…

— Ali Liebegott

“do you or don't you know the two worlds I'm talking about, the world that doesn't exist where you wish you could…

— Ali Liebegott

I'd gotten the message in my home, starting with my grandfather, that real work, the kind that makes you sweat and gets…

— Ali Liebegott

In Courtney Moreno's In Case of Emergency the working class save the world and themselves. A wonderful first book!

— Ali Liebegott

It's not like I hate gay people.

— Ali Liebegott

I was the first in my family to go to college, and I waitressed all the way through, using my earnings to…

— Ali Liebegott

In times of uncertainty - whether it's economic, psychological, emotional, or philosophical - people often say that the only thing we can…

— Ali Liebegott

I don't really believe in the myth of being poor but happy. At the poorest times in my life, I wasn't happy.…

— Ali Liebegott