JP Allen@JPAlln

Poet & translator (mostly Spanish-English). Growth Marketer @UserInterviews. Infrequent tweeter.

 Durham, NC
Joined May 2010
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Hi friends (and strangers)! 👋 I think this is my first tweet in years, but it's about something exciting—especially for friends in #startup and #ux land. @userinterviews just added a Free Forever plan for our user research logistics toolkit. Check it out!
User Interviews@userinterviews
27 May 2020
Exciting news! Research Hub—our toolkit for research with your own users—is now free! More talking to users, less annoying logistics, no cost. buff.ly/2AhXOj2
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Persuasion by Jane Austen is lit
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Every time I see a tweet from @ARealRiver it makes me happy and slightly more calm
I heard someone use the phrase "overcoming borders" for the first time the other day, in the context of coming to the US w/o papers, & I thought it was really good & I wanted to share it so it's in more people's vocabulary.
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Lambic pentameter: when you drink beer until you walk like ˘ ʹ ˘ ʹ ˘ ʹ ˘ ʹ ˘ ʹ
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Quick life update: I just moved (with Isabella Martin) to Durham, NC, after 3 years MFA-ing & teaching in Baltimore.
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Durham is really beautiful, sunny, and people here seem kind. The city is riddled with gentrification and its attendant problems tho.
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If I have any friends in the area who I haven't talked to yet-- say hi!!
Time for scrub missions to flitterary cragazines
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Hey campers! Last night your teacher @JPAlln read awesome poems at @TheInnerLoopLit at @ShawsTavern in DC.
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So many futures happening all at once
[#latergram] I return to #NYC about once a month. Each time I surface from the Lincoln tunnel,… instagram.com/p/7x1ORwn9ch/
Last night I saw poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera's inaugural reading in DC! Left feeling humbled &… instagram.com/p/7tQr5cn9Tm/
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My walk to class. Between home and JHU lies the sylvan Stony Run. (See the couple in the distance?)… instagram.com/p/7MRXzNH9fd/
Kentucky: driving toward glitched horizons (I feel like there's a mountaintop removal metaphor here)… instagram.com/p/6hrtg2H9Q4/
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Setting an old poem free every week, to push myself to write more new stuff. First one: "Shore Leave" - johnpatrickallen.com/blog/20…
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PEN America@PENamerica
17 Aug 2015
James Baldwin's FBI file is 1,884 pages long. @togglecoat asks why he was turned into a target: bit.ly/1Pth6yI @the_intercept
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The @PB_NYC projects I voted for all got funded!! One of the most relevant, empowering voting experiences I've had bradlander.com/PB
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