Writers’ Workshop – Letter Heads with Pulitzer Prize Finalist Will AlexanderWill Alexander

Join us for a fun evening of surrealist exercises, brainstorming, and discussion.

Acclaimed poet and essayist Will Alexander is a singular voice in American letters. In Divine Blue Light, his most recent book, he draws upon omnivorous reading—in subjects from biology to astronomy to history to philosophy—combining their diverse vocabularies into an impossible instrument only he can play.

This month, Alexander leads us through a handful of surrealist activities, spanning genres, designed to reduce inhibitions and set loose our creative minds. Everyone is welcome, no experience necessary. Come write with us!

About Will Alexander

Will Alexander has published numerous books of poetry, including Refractive Africa: Ballet of the Forgotten, which was a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry; Kaleidoscopic Omniscience; The Sri Lankan Loxodrome; Asia & Haiti; and Vertical Rainbow Climber. Also known for his essays, plays, and nonfiction, he is the author of Singing in Magnetic Hoofbeat: Essays, Prose Texts, Interviews, and a Lecture 1991–2007, winner of an American Book Award. Alexander is the recipient of a California Arts Council Fellowship, a PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award, a Whiting Foundation fellowship, a California Book Award, and the Jackson Poetry Prize, among others. He lives in Los Angeles.