The Story
Michelle Alexander's A Stone's Throw from C r a y takes up and is moved by radical Black creativity. To be thrown here unfolds an experience of human connection, struggle, and transformation within and outside institutionalized and Afro-Caribbean contexts. The poems skip across surfaces while collapsing personal and collective histories, thereby shifting spaces of potential that also unsettle Alexander's demarcations. Unfurling remixed narratives and embracing identities' fluidities, the subjects vibrate with her American-Trinidadian imagination. She poetically ambiguates and attends to the relations between the living and the dead, psychosocial precarity, and colonialism. Here, our journey steps alongside her chances at resilience.
Author: Michelle Alexander
Publisher: New American Press
Published: 03/01/2026
Pages: 114
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.32lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.27d
ISBN: 9781941561430
About the Author
Alexander, Michelle: - Michelle Alexander is an American-Trinidadian poet, creative nonfiction writer, and interdisciplinary practitioner. She graduated from New York University Gallatin School of Individualized Study, receiving the Herbert Rubin Prize in Poetry, and holds an MFA from Columbia College Chicago, where she was a Nathan Breitling Poetry Fellow. She has served as a Poet in Residence for the Chicago Poetry Center and as a Visiting Teaching Artist for the Poetry Foundation's "Forms and Features" series. She is the recipient of the Furious Flower 2024 Poetry Prize and a co-founder + Director of Interdisciplinary Arts at Unwoven Literary & Arts Magazine. Her poetry collection, A Stone's Throw from C r a y, the New American Prize winner (2024), was a finalist for The National Poetry Series, The Word Works Competition: Washington Prize, The 42 Miles Prize, and The Lightscatter Prize. Michelle is also the winner of Breakwater Review's 2025 Peseroff Poetry Prize.
Description
Michelle Alexander's A Stone's Throw from C r a y takes up and is moved by radical Black creativity. To be thrown here unfolds an experience of human connection, struggle, and transformation within and outside institutionalized and Afro-Caribbean contexts. The poems skip across surfaces while collapsing personal and collective histories, thereby shifting spaces of potential that also unsettle Alexander's demarcations. Unfurling remixed narratives and embracing identities' fluidities, the subjects vibrate with her American-Trinidadian imagination. She poetically ambiguates and attends to the relations between the living and the dead, psychosocial precarity, and colonialism. Here, our journey steps alongside her chances at resilience.
Author: Michelle Alexander
Publisher: New American Press
Published: 03/01/2026
Pages: 114
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.32lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.27d
ISBN: 9781941561430
About the Author
Alexander, Michelle: - Michelle Alexander is an American-Trinidadian poet, creative nonfiction writer, and interdisciplinary practitioner. She graduated from New York University Gallatin School of Individualized Study, receiving the Herbert Rubin Prize in Poetry, and holds an MFA from Columbia College Chicago, where she was a Nathan Breitling Poetry Fellow. She has served as a Poet in Residence for the Chicago Poetry Center and as a Visiting Teaching Artist for the Poetry Foundation's "Forms and Features" series. She is the recipient of the Furious Flower 2024 Poetry Prize and a co-founder + Director of Interdisciplinary Arts at Unwoven Literary & Arts Magazine. Her poetry collection, A Stone's Throw from C r a y, the New American Prize winner (2024), was a finalist for The National Poetry Series, The Word Works Competition: Washington Prize, The 42 Miles Prize, and The Lightscatter Prize. Michelle is also the winner of Breakwater Review's 2025 Peseroff Poetry Prize.
