Poetry in the Afternoon

Alex Grant's poetry collection, Chains & Mirrors won the 2006 Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize and the 2007 Oscar Arnold Young Award (Best North Carolina poetry collection). He received the 2006 Kakalak Poetry Prize and the 2004 Pavel Srut Poetry Fellowship in Prague. His second collection, The White Book, was released in 2008 by Main St. Rag Publishing. His full-length manuscript, Fear of Moving Water, has been a recent finalist for a number of national book prizes, and his poems have appeared or are upcoming in a number of national magazines, including The Missouri Review, Smartish Pace, Arts & Letters, Best New Poets 2007, The Connecticut Review, Nimrod and Seattle Review. He lives in Chapel Hill.

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