Will Alexander

A poet, aphorist, playwright, essayist, philosopher, visual artist, and pianist Will Alexander is a native of Los Angeles. The author of nearly thirty books, his honors include a Whiting Fellowship for Poetry, a California Arts Council Fellowship, the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award, a Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award, and the 2016 Jackson Poetry Prize. He is currently the poet-in-residence at Beyond Baroque in Venice, California.

Will Alexander

A poet, aphorist, playwright, essayist, philosopher, visual artist, and pianist Will Alexander is a native of Los Angeles. The author of nearly thirty books, his honors include a Whiting Fellowship for Poetry, a California Arts Council Fellowship, the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award, a Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award, and the 2016 Jackson Poetry Prize. He is currently the poet-in-residence at Beyond Baroque in Venice, California.

Books by Will Alexander

  • Across the Vapour Gulf

    Will Alexander

    Paperback, 2017

    Poetics: flight across precipitous intransigence.--from Across the Vapour Gulf.
  • Refractive Africa

    Will Alexander

    Paperback, 2021

    Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
    Winner of the California Book Award in Poetry


    Three kinetically distilled long poems by the singular American poet who “transfigures ‘thought’ into a weave of...
  • Refractive Africa

    Will Alexander

    E Book, 2021

    Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
    Winner of the California Book Award in Poetry


    Three kinetically distilled long poems by the singular American poet who “transfigures ‘thought’ into a weave of...