Teaching and Performance
Alexander has given readings, lectures, and workshops at colleges, universities, art centers, and other locations, including the Univ. of Alabama, the Univ. of Arizona, the State Univ. of New York at Buffalo, Small Press Traffic in San Francisco, Canessa Gallery in San Francisco, the University of Washington, Pacific Lutheran Univ. in Tacoma, Denver Univ., Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Toronto (Canada) Art Studio, and more. Alexander has also performed poetry in galleries and art centers, has collaborated with musicians and dancers, and in general brings to poetry a broad sense of artistic and collaborative possibility. Such collaborations include a poem/visual art mark commissioned by the Phoenix Public Library, created with artist Cynthia Miller; and collaborations on several projects with Orts Theater of Dance, including Urban Gaits and Balanced Edge. His poem, Aviary Corridor, set to music for string quartet, piano, flute, and soprano voice by the American composer Tim Risher, premiered at the University of Washington in April 2007, with Alexander as writer/artist in residence. He read for the Double Change series in Paris in June 2007 and participated in the Paris TAMAAS Poetry Translation Seminar.
Alexander is a part time faculty member at Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder, Colorado, Pima Community College and the University of Arizona Poetry Center. He also teaches independent courses to the community in creative writing, literature, and the book arts.
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