WATCH: Will Alexander Reads from His New Poetry Collection, Divine Blue Light

Greenlight Bookstore welcomes Will Alexander, finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, to introduce Divine Blue Light, his new collection of poems from the intersection between surrealism and afro-futurism, where Césaire meets Sun Ra. Will Alexander’s poems constitute an alternative cartography that draws upon omnivorous reading—in subjects from biology to astronomy to history to […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

[ Literrary Hub | 2023-01-12 09:52:43 UTC ]

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