Editor’s Note: We're so excited and honored to be publishing this excerpt from Alexandria Peary's long poem, "The Pforzheim Quartet," which engages with history and memory through the use of extraordinary language, image, and sound. When we on the poetry team first...
Alexandria serves as Poet Laureate of New Hampshire. She is the author of nine books, most recently, Battle of Silicon Valley at Daybreak. Her work has received a 2020 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship, the Iowa Poetry Prize, and the Slope Editions Prize. Her poetry and creative nonfiction have appeared in the Yale Review, North American Review, Southern Humanities Review, New York Times, Gettysburg Review, and New American Writing. She is editor-in-chief at Under the Madness Magazine, a magazine edited by teens, publishing teens worldwide, and a professor at Salem State University where she teaches creative writing and mindful writing. She specializes in mindful writing, the topic of her 2019 TEDx talk, "How Mindfulness Can Transform the Way You Write."