Alexandra van de Kamp is the Executive Director for Gemini Ink, San Antonio’s Writing Arts Center (www.geminiink.org). Her third book of poems, Ricochet Script, was recently published by Next Page Press (April 2022). Previous collections of poems include: Kiss/Hierarchy (Rain Mountain Press 2016) and The Park of Upside-Down Chairs (CW Books 2010). She has also published several chapbooks, including A Liquid Bird Inside the Night (Red Glass Books 2015) and Dear Jean Seberg (2011), which won the 2010 Burnside Review Chapbook Contest. Her poems have been published in journals nationwide, such as The Cincinnati Review, The Texas Observer, Denver Quarterly, Great Weather for MEDIA, Washington Square, 32Poems, Tahoma Literary Review, Court Green, and Sweet: A Literary Confection. Poems have been featured recently in the anthologies CONTRA: Texas Poets Speak Out (FlowerSong Press 2020) and Yellow Flag Poems: Life in the Time of COVID-19 (Word Design Press 2022). Her work has received Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominations.

Other poems by Alexandra van de Kamp in Verse Daily:
September 22, 2016:   "Miss Marple Solves the Mysteries of the World" "You never know what awaits you..."
November 9, 2011:   "Mrs. P. Goes House-Hunting" "Buzz, buzz, buzz goes the world. We are each in a distortion of our own making...."
March 24, 2010:   "Dear B—" "Dear Babaushka, dear..."

Books by Alexandra van de Kamp:

Other poems on the web by Alexandra van de Kamp:
"Lost Earring"
"Dear S—"
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Alexandra van de Kamp's Website.

Alexandra van de Kamp on Twitter.

About Ricochet Script:

"Alexandra van de Kamp tells us 'I want to make sense of abundance.' In her beautifully wrought poems, we experience the sheer delight of all the sights, smells, and sounds of this world. Yet few poets are as deft at simultaneously evoking the precarity and consequent tenderness of existence. Van de Kamp's is a world made magical through art. She is canny, funny, filmic, but she can also stop your heart with the sudden apprehension of how time moves through us, 'coaxing us / to bear something so much larger than ourselves.'"
—Sheila Black

"This poet is a lithe acrobat, her ricocheting thoughts tightly woven by stunning images. The poems think, yet movement is concrete, specific, tuned with details: '. . . watch the bright / balled-up leaves in the boiled water unfurl and float, / like mini Esther Williams doing the backstroke.' Or '. . . let's not forget the invisible; / the mosquito the size of a torn // eyelash . . .' The poems in Ricochet Script decry and bless the human condition. Alexandra van de Kamp's use of irony, pathos to describe inner and outer worlds, and her close investigation of mortality brings us a book to savor, to read slowly, expectations raised to the excitement and beauty of what is next. "
—Veronica Golos

"In the atmospheric Ricochet Script, poems are rendered not only in the high contrast of film noir, but in the flesh tones of unmediated raw material—the body and the life gathered around it. 'Elegy to My Uterus with a Glass of Pinot Noir' effortlessly blends the body and the cinematic: 'When they told me you had to go, / I envisioned myself on a train in a 1950s European war film, staring out / at a country I'd never see again.' Alexandra van de Kamp takes delight in the tools of her trade. Language shimmers with meaning and eroticism, words themselves become 'rounded and ridged morsels.' While the mood sometimes darkens, the voice of these entrancing poems is sophisticated, ardent, witty, and passionate."
—Stephanie Dickinson