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Jun.30.2012
Personal Poetry Critique with a national award-winning poet
Over the past few years, I have spent much of my time leading workshops...
Alex Grant -- The Circus Poems

Published Reviews

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Nov.01.2011
The Circus Poems
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....
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Past Events

Compression and Distillation in Poetry - Workshop with Alex Grant
Start: 17 Apr 2010 - 11:00 am
End: 17 Apr 2010 - 2:00 pm
Statesville, NC
Reading at The Regulator, Durham, NC - Alex Grant and Roy Jacobstein
Start: 29 Jan 2010 - 7:00 pm
End: 29 Jan 2010 - 8:00 pm
Durham, NC
Spark Poetry Festival - Headline Reading - Morning Times, Raleigh, NC
Start: 19 Sep 2009 - 9:00 pm
End: 19 Sep 2009 - 10:00 pm
Raleigh, NC
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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...
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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...