janan alexandra is the author of the poetry collection COME FROM (BOA Editions, 2025). The recipient of support from the Vermont Studio Center, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, the Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts, and the Fulbright Program, janan won the 2023 Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry, judged by Marie Howe. Since 2015, janan has taught creative writing in schools, libraries, youth arts centers, zoom rooms, and carceral spaces. Along with language work, janan has facilitated restorative movement classes; nannied for families; welded ice cream scoops; tied oyster nets; tended land and animals; built furniture; baked bread; painted houses; and busked to make a living. She teaches Creative Writing at Indiana University and elsewhere in community, edits poetry for The Rumpus, and plays fiddle in a ragtag folk duo called Sweet May Dews.

Other poems on the web by janan alexandra:
Four poems
"Ode To The Cilantro On 6th & Maple"
Two poems
"How the Dream Ends"
"return"
"Bitter: A Map"

janan alexandra's Website.

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Senior Poetry Editor: Jennifer Kwon Dobbs
Other poems by AGNI in Verse Daily:
December 27, 2024:   "Balancing Act" by Heidi Seaborn
December 23, 2024:   "that has been entrusted to us" by Erika Meitner

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