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Alex Grant's Blog
March 17, 2010
- Someone who is reading Fear of Moving Water wanted to post "The Curse of Tourette", but couldn't find it online -- so here it is -- this poem first appeared in Nimrod. The Curse of Tourette “Enfer foutu!” - Gilles de la Tourette In Arles, Domaine de la Tourette, Gauguin painted ‘ Self-portrait dedicated to Vincent Van Gogh,’ ...
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March 15, 2010
- Written a few months ago -- apropos for today...you can also see the painting the poem is based on... http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Cesar-sa_mort.jpg Julius Caesar (After Morté de Cesare - Vincenzo Camuccini, 1798.) The assassins crowd like vultures around a dying sheep, swords and daggers raised above his head, vermillion robes ...
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March 14, 2010
- Just had a great interview on The Jane Crown Radio Show -- Jane is a wonderful interviewer, and you can hear it here: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/the-jane-crown-show/2010/03/14/alex-grant
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March 3, 2010
- I'm thrilled to say that my second full-length collection, The Circus Poems, will be published by Lorimer Press this coming fall. An untitled section break from the upcoming book... Red ants are massing at my door. The church has been closed down and they don’t know it. They are looking for their Cardinal – he is painting the steps at my Grandmother’s house, his ...
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February 28, 2010
- I think March may actually be the cruellest month -- but I may be biased. Untitled introduction to the first section of my book, Fear of Moving Water, released last year. So we come here, to this haberdashery of words, apothecary for the faintly damaged. Well, Wounded Elk, walk this way – follow the voice leading ...
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February 26, 2010
- Always with the angles. From "Bloody Heaven", a full-length work-in-progress. Pythagoras ____________________________________________________________ The bane of schoolchildren everywhere, master of squares and roots and hypotenuse, who spoke to his brethren from behind a veil - who worshipped the number ten and forbade his followers ...
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February 22, 2010
- When I'm cheesed-off, humor usually helps. Or not cheesed-off. A poem from "And Everything is Filled With Nothing", a recently-completed full-length manuscript. This has been published somewhere -- I just can't recall where... Cosmic Joke “I bought a map of the desert – turns out it was a piece of sandpaper”… ...
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February 18, 2010
February 13, 2010
- Last night I was cranking my MP3s and I came across this great reading of a great poem by Anne Sexton -- a wonderful poet, I always think. RIP Lucille Clifton.http://redroom.com/audio/anne-sexton-reads-all-my-pretty-ones
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January 31, 2010
- I was lucky enough to have two poems in this year's "Margie - The American Journal of Poetry" -- and to be sharing space with people like John Ashbery, Maxine Kumin, Natasha Trethewey, Dorianne Laux, Tony Hoagland and way too many other great contemporary poets to name. You can see who here: http://www.margiereview.com/ The poems in Margie are two more from "The ...
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January 18, 2010
- I'm honored to be be featured as "Poet of the week" on NC Poet Laureate Kathryn Stripling Byer's blog. (Which incidentally was recently named one of the thirty best blogs out there.) You can find the feature here: http://ncpoetlaureate.blogspot.com/2010/01/poet-of-week-alex-grant.htmlA big thank-you to Kathryn!
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January 11, 2010
- Peggy Rabb died January 3rd after a four-year fight with cancer, which she met with grace and without complaint. Peggy was a kind, thoughtful, accomplished and brilliant woman -- and a wonderful poet. I was fortunate to be her friend and the recipient of her advice and guidance in my writing over the past few years. You can read two of her 2007 Anthony Hecht Prize-winning poems here: ...
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January 6, 2010
January 6, 2010
- My first blog of the new decade - I have to remember this. A poem from "The Circus Poems", a recently completed full-length collection. I decided it was time to move into the 24th century, so I've adopted some new technology. Call it a multi-media experience - seeking out strange new poems and new life-forms - call it boldly going where no poet has gone before. The Lion. Lasts under a ...
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December 30, 2009
- A poem from "The Circus Poems", a recently completed full-length collection. This poem first appeared in the Winter 2008 edition of The Missouri Review. I decided it was time to move into the 24th century, so I've adopted some new technology. Call it a multi-media experience - seeking out strange new poems and new life-forms - call it boldly going where no poet has gone before.The ...
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