Alyssa Perry
Alyssa Perry is a writer, editor, and teacher. She is the author of continuousous egg, a performance-image-text (Community Mausoleum, 2026), and Oily Doily, a poetry collection (Bench Editions, 2024). Her writing appears with Annulet, The Canary, Fence, Mercury Firs, Revue Transat’, the Experimental Sound Studio, and other venues. Perry is poetry editor at the Cleveland Review of Books and an editor at Rescue Press. She teaches at the Cleveland Institute of Art.
continuousous egg
From the publisher
A hologram. A PowerPoint. A soliloquy coagulated in the uncanny valley. Alyssa Perry’s continuousous egg is a performance-image-text that deftly pricks the membranes of mechanized productivity, learning, and loss, scrambling familial inheritance with workaday extraction, grievance and grief with play and critique. AI slop and machine-looking hallucinations whisk with Perry’s own vocal glitches and seeing to befuddle the absurd-sublime into a delicate emulsion. Joyfully off-putting and curiously undulating. A tender mass.
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Community Mausoleum
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Oily Doily
Remarks
In Alyssa Perry's alchemical Oily Doily, lyric opens its throat at the vanishing point to pose as vision's dubious double—I see the eyes—and assonance offers up its juicy fruit, its noosey loop. From its "clarisonic" prelude to its Solarian terminus, Perry renders optics as orbit and icon, both the limit of human presence and the interface where immanence still might knock. Fizzy, fatal stuff. —Joyelle McSweeney, author of Death Styles
Razor-edged, stagger-rhymed, Oily Doily is a diamond saw. Its music is intricate and remorseless as its subject: empire, centuries of bourgeois kitsch, 80s flicks, tech strip-mining our curiosity, sympathy, and desire for solidarity. Miraculously, the work doesn’t fall for despair but offers clarity within clarity, glittering surfaces within aqueous depths. You’ll emerge from this debut wire-crossed and Perry-pilled. After a hundred pages, I’d gladly read two hundred more. —Joe Hall, author of Fugue & Strike
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Asterism Books
New Material Books
Woodland Pattern
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Writing
Revue Transat’ 5 : Green in Summer & Acrylic Pouring Medium (print)
Colby Review : Hams (print)
Apartment : from Pool
CSU Poetry Center : A swan, In order to be here & Filling station (video)
Coma : Commercial break & from Pool
Mercury Firs : Clouds
New Orleans Poetry Festival : Filling station & A swan (video)
Experimental Sound Studio : from space project (video)
Fence : Xiu Xiu at Beachland Ballroom, Freerice.com & The ambassadors
Cleveland Review of Books : In order to be here
Wick Poetry Center : Remember-you-will-die-sun
River Styx : A swan
The Canary : What time is the next swan (print)
Yalobusha Review : Three-in-one sonic beauty device
Annulet : Filling station, From one position & Daisy
Denver Quarterly : Seeing Dario Argento’s Suspiria (print)
West Branch Wired : Byssus & Naval ship worm
Poetry Northwest : Work
Jubilat : Glamis girl in the bubble (print)
LVNG : Lithocardites & from Colony
Events
Upcoming
Cleveland OH : Ellis Press at Rhizome House, Saturday, October 24 @ 7 pm with Warren Longmire, Matthew Klane, and Michael Joseph Walsh.
TBD : Get in touch!
Recent
Readings with Community Mausoleum, Salon Salvage, Dogpark, Limited Palette, New Material Books, New Orleans Poetry Festival, Con Tú Variety Show, Normie Creep in the Sacred Grove, Spit Poetry, green_space, Literary Cleveland, and others.
Editing
Poetry editor at Cleveland Review of Books (2024–), curating poetry and experimental prose for biannual print issues and monthly web series, as well as a bimonthly excerpt series of new and forthcoming small press publications. clereviewofbooks.com
Editor at Rescue Press (2022–), a small press publisher of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and hybrid-genre works. Previously intern and editorial assistant (2013–2021). Editor on Gerónimo Sarmiento Cruz’s vertebrae (2026), Daisy Atterbury’s The Kármán Line (2024) and Adrienne Raphel’s Our Dark Academia (2022). rescuepress.co
Teaching
Associate professor of writing at the Cleveland Institute of Art (2026–). Courses include Writing About Film, Writing I, Writing II, Writing III, Creative Writing Senior Seminar, Art of the Personal Essay, Poetry Workshop, and Creative Writing Special Topics: Art Criticism. Coordinator of the Writing + Learning Center, CIA’s peer support resource for coursework, composition, and creative processes.
Previous teaching includes appointments at Cleveland State University and University of Iowa, as well as writing tutor, camp counselor, and teaching artist roles.