Daughter of Filth, Mother of Crumbs

ALEXANDRA EGAN

“I thought a baby made you soft / it made me feral”

Fierce and tender, militant and free, Alexandra Egan’s poems are forged in motherhood + protest & cooled in wildest joy.

or SUBSCRIBE to Dirt Editions Vol. 1, and receive the first three pamphlets, plus gifts made from plants. $25

Alexandra Egan is a poet, designer, activist, editor, scavenger, an expert in trash, a perpetual party host and a mother. These are not in order of importance. She lives with her daughter in Bed Stuy and was a 2025 Emerge-Surface-Be fellow at The Poetry Project.

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EVENTS

Sunday, August 17, 2025
NYC Release
with Mirene Arsanios & Anna Gurton-Wachter
The Word Is Change
368 Tompkins Ave, Brooklyn NY

Friday, June 6, 2025
with Ariel Yelen and Weston Minissali
Bushel Collective
106 Main Street, Delhi NY