Cassandra de Alba is a poet living in Massachusetts. Her work has appeared in The Shallow Ends, Big Lucks, smoking glue gun, and Spy Kids Review, among other publications. Her chapbooks habitats (Horse Less Press, 2016) and ORB (Reality Hands, 2018) are about deer and the moon, respectively, and Ugly/Sad was released by Glass Poetry Press in 2020. She is a co-host at the Boston Poetry Slam at the Cantab Lounge and an associate editor at Pizza Pi Press.

Other poems on the web by Cassandra de Alba:
Five poems
Six poems
"End Times Fatigue"
Two poems
Four poems
Five poems

Cassandra de Alba's Website.

Cassandra de Alba on Twitter.

About Ugly/Sad:

"Ugly/Sad is a haunted house but each room is lush with rot, with moss, with pinks and purples, with casual scars, with artifacts of desire from when desire first blooms inside you, before it becomes a mist. Cassandra de Alba's poetry makes me feel like I can be a bad bitch, too, one that carries a knife in my boot and it's not a bluff. This poet reminds me that I don't need to retrace my steps if I keep track of them as I go; If I pick up everything I find on the ground, it's not just the light that teaches me what something is. It's the smoke, too."
—Jess Rizkallah