Alex Grant Poet

photo credit: Tristi DeBlander

Author Biography

My book Chains & Mirrors (NCWN/Harperprints) won the 2006 Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize and the 2007 Oscar Arnold Young Award(Best North Carolina poetry collection). The White Book was released by Main St. Rag Publishing in 2008.
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Influences

Walt Whitman, T S Eliot, Dylan Thomas, Buson, Basho, Issa, Jorge Luis Borges, Charles Simic, Charles Wright, Syd Smith, Tristi DeBlander, Samuel Adams.

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, Life of Pi, Ubik, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Favorite Authors

Philip K. Dick, T. S. Eliot

What I'm Reading

The back of a Black and Mild packet...

Web Links

The Drip-Feed Virtual Poetry Reading - 2:5 - A History of Foot-beating

Fear of Moving Water

by Alex Grant

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Man's nadir wrapped up in a Shakespearian Sonnet...from my recently-released collection, "Fear of Moving Water". The poem won honorable mention for the 2005 Arts & Letters Poetry Prize.