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# will alexander
- URL: https://atelier.qxavier.com/living-inspirations/inspiration-will-alexander/
- Published: 2026-10-06T11:57:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-06T11:57:00.000Z
- Description: poet-in-residence • beyond baroque literary arts center, venice, california
- Author: quincéy xavier
- Tags: living inspirations, #Import 2026-10-16 06:39

*poet-in-residence • beyond baroque literary arts center, venice, california*

a poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, visual artist, and pianist, born in los angeles in 1948 and there ever since. more than two dozen books, a 2022 pulitzer finalist, and poet-in-residence at beyond baroque literary arts center.

bio from [the poetry foundation, and beyond baroque](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/will-alexander?ref=atelier.qxavier.com)

### read

- [Will Alexander's Epics of the Surreal](https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/will-alexander-poetry/?ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — the nation, 2023
- [Bird and Shaman](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/155681/bird-and-shaman?ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — poetry foundation, 2021
- [Will Alexander's Sonic Grammar](https://www.altaonline.com/dispatches/a42573687/will-alexanders-sonic-grammar/?ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — alta journal, 2023
- [In Conversation: Will Alexander & James Goodwin](https://granta.com/in-conversation-goodwin-alexander/?ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — granta, 2022
- [Ten Questions for Will Alexander](https://www.pw.org/content/ten%5Fquestions%5Ffor%5Fwill%5Falexander?ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — poets & writers, 2022

### watch

- [Will Alexander Interview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB%5FIGH8Nw9k&ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — poetry.la, 2022
- [Lunch Poems: Will Alexander](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd6QvaXGfPk&ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — university of california television, 2006
- [Will Alexander reads "Compression and Purity"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JmWh8DNNhA&ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — pennsound
- [Paradigm Shifting: Edwin Torres and Will Alexander in Conversation](http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/multimedia/tv/reruns/watch/208640?ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — kelly writers house, penn, 2016
- [Oral History Initiative: Reading & Conversation with Will Alexander](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOG6L8tgn-E&ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — woodberry poetry room, harvard, 2024 (link not yet checked)

### hear

- [Close Listening with Will Alexander](https://jacket2.org/commentary/close-listening-will-alexander?ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — close listening, jacket2, 2016
- [Strange galvanics (PoemTalk #75)](https://jacket2.org/podcasts/strange-galvanics-poemtalk-75?ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — poemtalk, 2014
- [Will Alexander](https://skylightbooks.podbean.com/e/will-alexander/?ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — skylight books podcast, 2011
- [Episode 61: Will Alexander](https://www.lapl.org/books-emedia/podcasts/poems-air/episode-61?ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — poems on air, los angeles public library, 2022
- [Will Alexander: readings and talks](https://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Alexander-Will.php?ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — pennsound