M. Lee Alexander | Spinning the Compass

BRUSSELS - March 31, 2018 - PRLog -- M. Lee Alexander's work is inspired by her love of language, music, nature, and travel. It has appeared in a variety of journals and been anthologized in a number of collections.

Her first chapbook Observatory was published by Finishing Line Press in 2007 and was nominated for the Virginia Library Association Poetry Book Award. Her second chapbook Folly Bridge was published by the same press in 2011. Alexander's poetry has won significant awards including Finalist for the Robert Frost Foundation Annual Poetry Award, Finalist in the Political Satire category of Ireland's Strokestown International Poetry Competition, First Honorable Mention in the W. B. Yeats Society of New York Poetry Competition, longlisted for the Bridport Prize, winner of the Yeovil Literary Prize in 2009 for which the judge was UK Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has performed her poetry, sometimes with jazz accompaniment, throughout the mid-Atlantic region and also internationally. She also writes creative nonfiction and juvenile poetry and fiction. She has judged local, statewide, and international writing contests. She teaches multiple genres of creative writing at William & Mary in Williamsburg, VA, where she resides with a house full of pets.


Spinning the Compass, Lee Alexander's latest collection of new and selected poems, revels in the challenge of taking journeys near and far, celebrating our commonalities and astutely observing our differences. She writes with an ear for rhyme and the discipline of forms, an eye for the telling image, and a heart for the joys, the sorrows, and the most personal rituals that make us who we are. From the Outer Banks of North Carolina, to Folly Bridge, to Stonehenge, or to her beloved Finland, this sojourner's travels take her to the heart of things, great and small.

~Hermine Pinson, Professor of English & Africana Studies, William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA


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