Alan Britt

Author's Bio

Alan Britt's The Poet and the Poem interview for the Library of Congress (http://www.loc.gov/poetry/poetpoem.html) aired on Pacifica Radio in January 2013. His interview with Minnesota Review is up at http://minnesotareview.wordpress.com/. He read for the We Are You Project/Ragazine event at the historic Maysles Cinema in NYC/Harlem (February 2013), at the (World Trade Center) Tribute WTC Visitors Center in Manhattan/NYC (April 2012), and for the We Are You Project at the Wilmer Jennings Gallery in East Village/NYC (April 2012). He is Poetry Editor-in-chief for the We Are You Project International (WeAreYouProject.org).

Publications and Prizes

Books:

Greatest Hits (Pudding House Publications, 2015), Vermilion (Bitter Oleander Press, 2005), Infinite Days (Bitter Oleander Press, 2003), Bodies of Lightning (Cypress Books, 1995)

Anthologies:

Fathers: A Collection of Poems (St. Martin's Press, 1997), Rising Waters (Pekitanoui Publishing, 1995)

Journals:

Chariton Review, Confrontation, English Journal, Exquisite Corpse, New Letters, Steaua

Prizes:

Poetry is not about contests.

Personal Favorites

What I'm Reading Now:

The First Decade by Duane Locke, Of Flies and Monkeys by Jacques Dupin, 1001 Winters by Kristiina Ehin, Afterglow by Alberto Blanco, Empire in the Shade of a Grassblade by Rob Cook

Favorite Books:

Poet in New York Federico Garcia Lorca; Rainbows Under Boards by Duane Locke; Estravagario by Pablo Neruda; Paris Spleen by Charles Baudelaire; Late into the Night by Yannis Ritsos; Under the Loquat Tree by Silvia Scheibli; Festival of Stone by Steve Barfield; Cadenzas by Needlelight by Paul B. Roth

Favorite Authors:

Locke, Lorca, Neruda, Aleixandre, Dupin, Trakl, Vallejo, Baudelaire, Whitman, Rilke,

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Listing last updated: April 28, 2013

More Information

Listed as:

Poet

Gives readings?

Yes

Travels for readings?

Yes

Identifies as:

Caucasian

Prefers to work with:

Adults

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Norfolk, VA

Raised in:

West Palm Beach, FL

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