Blog Posts for Alex Grant

The Drip-Feed Virtual Poetry Reading - 2:8 - Galileo Galilei

Alex Grant — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:28:55 -0800

A poem from "Bloody Heaven", my manuscript-in-progress. I plan on posting these on a regular basis - kind of a drip-feed virtual poetry reading. This way, you don't have to leave home and sit in a noisy coffee-house, you don't have to sit through the open-mic and the sales-pitches - and if you don't like it - well, you can get up and leave any time you like and nobody will think ...

Leonard Cohen

Alex Grant — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:50:19 -0800

I'm finally going to see him - tonight, in Durham, NC - a 75-year-old living legend who probably will never tour again(his manager stole his retirement fund - only reason he's touring). I've loved this guy for more than 30 years - I hope this is as great as I think it's going to be...

The Drip-Feed Virtual Poetry Reading - 2:7 - Brigadoon

Alex Grant — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:02:56 -0800

A poem from "The Twilight Zone", my recently-completed full-length manuscript. I plan on posting these on a regular basis - kind of a drip-feed virtual poetry reading. This way, you don't have to leave home and sit in a noisy coffee-house, you don't have to sit through the open-mic and the sales-pitches - and if you don't like it - well, you can get up and leave any time you ...

The Drip-Feed Virtual Poetry Reading - 2:7 - Suffer the Little Children

Alex Grant — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:21:36 -0800

Removed by author

A Great poem from a great poet

Alex Grant — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:53:59 -0700

Too busy tonight(preparing for a reading tomorrow night) to do much - but here's something... When You Are Old When you are old and gray and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty ...

The Drip-Feed Virtual Poetry Reading - 2:6 - In the Ocean, Bones Flash Like White Stars in Winter

Alex Grant — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:27:56 -0700

A poem from "Fear of Moving Water", my recently-released full-length collection. This poem is a Renga - a series of linked haiku - each stanza being a separate haiku(5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables) - each of which should stand alone, but should also link to the preceding and successive stanzas to form a whole - that's the theory, anyhow. I plan on posting these on a ...

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

Alex Grant — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:45:35 -0700

A poem from "Fear of Moving Water", my recently-released collection. This poem won honorable mention for the 2005 Arts & Letters Poetry Prize. I plan on posting these on a regular basis - kind of a drip-feed virtual poetry reading. This way, you don't have to leave home and sit in a noisy coffee-house, you don't have to sit through the open-mic and the sales-pitches - ...

The Drip-Feed Virtual Poetry Reading - 2:4 - Tomas Transtromer's "Tracks"

Alex Grant — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:59:13 -0700

Cover poetry - a poem by the brilliant Swedish poet - translated by Robert Bly. Better than what you've been getting lately! I plan on posting these on a regular basis - kind of a drip-feed virtual poetry reading. This way, you don't have to leave home and sit in a noisy coffee-house, you don't have to sit through the open-mic and the sales-pitches - and if you don't like it - well, you ...

The Drip-Feed Virtual Poetry Reading - 2:3 - Neruda's Suicide Note

Alex Grant — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:13:29 -0700

A poem from "Fear of Moving Water", my recently-released collection. This poem won honorable mention for the 2005 Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize. I plan on posting these on a regular basis - kind of a drip-feed virtual poetry reading. This way, you don't have to leave home and sit in a noisy coffee-house, you don't have to sit through the open-mic and the sales-pitches - and if ...

The Drip-Feed Virtual Poetry Reading - 2:1 - The Elephant

Alex Grant — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:31:58 -0700

A poem from "The Circus Poems", a recently-completed full-length collection. This poem was a 2008 finalist for Smartish Pace's Erskine J. Poetry Prize and appeared in issue 16. I plan on posting these on a regular basis - kind of a drip-feed virtual poetry reading. This way, you don't have to leave home and sit in a noisy coffee-house, you don't have to sit through the ...