Over the past few years, I have spent much of my time leading workshops, giving readings and critiquing and mentoring poets. After 26 years of corporatocracy, I am devoting myself full-time to poetry. I am now taking on more students - details, testimonials, etc. at alexgrantpoet.com.
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Jun.30.2012 - 7:26 am
"If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love-affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've...
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May.30.2012 - 7:15 pm
After 26 years of(sometime) stupidity, venality and bureaucracy, I finally decided last week that I could no longer work for corporate America. I resigned, they paid me my notice...
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May.15.2012 - 6:56 pm
You know - the ones that grind slow, but exceeding small? These days, they don't grind quite so slow...
In two weeks, I'll be 58. (I'm going to have to start giving my age in...
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May.14.2012 - 8:11 pm
After Friday's interview/reading on "The State of Things" on NC NPR, I got an email(via my publisher) from someone who had listened in to the show - she wanted to know my summer...
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Writing
Published Reviews
Nov.01.2011
Published by Asheville Poetry Review
POETS' DEMANDS: READERS AND CONTEXTS
IN FOUR NEW BOOKS OF POETRY
Brewer, Gaylord. Give Over, Graymalkin. Pasadena: Red Hen Press, 2011.
Grant, Alex. The Circus Poems....
About Alex
Alex Grant's Chains & Mirrors won the 2007 Oscar Arnold Young Award(Best North Carolina poetry collection) and the 2006 Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize. Fear of Moving Water, his 2009 collection, was runner-up for both the Oscar Arnold Young and the...
Connections
Causes Alex Grant Supports
Southern Poverty Law Center
Amnesty International
Moveon.org
Alex’s Favorite Books
Catcher in the Rye, Journey to Ixtlan, Voyage to Arcturus, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, The White Hotel, The Four Quartets, The World Doesn't End...
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