Joan Alexander Poetry capture and slavery to become

capture and slavery to become a pillar of the community in nineteenth-century Owen Sound

to the cozy hearth of the domesticated housecat

where he taught from 1969 to 2004

Timmins and Simcoe before he landed a position covering arts at the Brantford Expositor

A suit of Nettles

Joan Alexander Poetry capture and slavery to becomeJoan Alexander, author of Lines of Truth and Conversation, was born in Chicago, and moved to Canada in 1979, where she worked as a teacher and a journalist for many years while continuing to study the writing craft. Her work has appeared in a number of Canadian literary journals and has been nominated for the Journey Prize, a National Magazine Award, and Best New American Voices.