I could use more quiet—the kind that has me notice the feet-shuffling sound the dry oak trees emit; their kale-green flapping audience. So much worry fist bumping other worries inside of me. Are we ever settled enough into a moment to assess its full contours and dimensions? How do I measure the exact loss I […]
Alexandra Van de Kamp
Alexandra van de Kamp is the Executive Director for Gemini Ink, San Antonio’s Writing Arts Center (www.geminiink.org). Her most recent book of poems is Ricochet Script (Next Page Press 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, Washington Square, Jet Fuel Review, 32Poems, and Sweet: A Literary Confection. Poems are forthcoming in Moon City Review. She has had her work featured in the anthology PraiseSong: Poems from the Heart and Soul of Texas, edited by Amanda Johnston (2025) and on VerseDaily. Her poetry has received Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominations. Find out more about her poetry here: alexandravandekamppoet.com.