Alexandra King

Journalist (@CNN). Writer (lots of places). Formerly @UN. One half of Lyles and King gallery. Likes: Art, justice, human rights, girl power, lists.

[Alexandra King @Alexandrasking]

An essay from me in the @guardian today about having 3 miscarriages in a year, and becoming the proprietress of NYC's loneliest bakery

[The Guardian @guardian]

A maddening grief: my year of miscarriages and how I got through it https://t.co/h6yobn63eI

[Alexandra King @Alexandrasking]

@ONA HI! I've emailed repeatedly re: prize money and trophies for our CNN team who won an award for digital video storytelling in Gaza last year. Prize money has not materialized 7 months later. No response from anyone so this is my last resort. Please get in touch ASAP

[BBC Archive @BBCArchive]

"I’ve never fell off a big chimney. You only fall off one of them once."

#OnThisDay 1979: Extraordinary steeplejack Fred Dibnah was introduced to the nation.

[Seamus Heaney @HeaneyDaily]

Today is the tenth anniversary of the death of Seamus Heaney.

“Walk on air against your better judgement”

[Walter Kirn @walterkirn]

The end of The Road by Cormac McCarthy, as beautiful a paragraph as has ever been made by hand

[Mary Karr, Poet/Memoirist/Professor @marykarrlit]

Ah I adore you, Chase. Nobody else carries me laminated in their wallet. A thousand bows…..

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

The Cherry Blossom forest in Naru Japan.

The blossoms or Sakura, bloom from the last week of March into the first weeks of April.

[Caroline Bird @CarolineBirdUK]

An incredible poem by Fiona Benson…

[Isabelle Baldwin 🌎🎞 @BelleNoelPhoto]

Portraits famous photographers have taken of their partners (a thread):

[Alexandra King @Alexandrasking]

24 hour daycare is an essential, often too invisible resource for so many American parents. Proud to profile Ms Betty, Brittany and the kids of Angels of Essence in this film, made with star producers ⁦@laceylrussell⁩ and ⁦@_jeffkopp⁩ https://t.co/VH1RNL8Rfh

[Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel]

Gather ‘round, ladies. It’s time for the annual buying of The Notebook That Will Change Everything™️.

[Alexandra King @Alexandrasking]

@NotRollergirl Hit that send girl!

[Henry Winkler @hwinkler4real]

some people are just touched by the heavens

[Lincoln Michel @TheLincoln]

Fixed this for Shakespeare

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Spectacular time lapse of the the Eurasian blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus),

From finding and inspecting her new home to raising a family

[Alexandra King @Alexandrasking]

Harrowing, essential reporting from the always superb @ebruenig

[Academy of American Poets @POETSorg]

Only the comfort of darkness,
The ice-cold, unfreezable brine,
Could melt the cries into silence,
Your bright hands into mine.

—Galway Kinnell

https://t.co/Yc5dT7cqd4

[Sondheim Lyrics @sondheimlyrics]

Sometimes people leave you halfway through the wood. Do not let it grieve you, no one leaves for good.

[Alexandra King @Alexandrasking]

@NickyWoolf POEMS obvi

[Alexandra King @Alexandrasking]

@JetBlue you charged me for flights 10 days after the glitchy website crashed mid payment. I never got an email confirmation. Now I can't cancel the flights on your website, non stop error messages directing me to the phone, but I can't get through- 4 plus hour wait times. HELP!