Sandra Alcosser

Sandra Alcosser is a professor of poetry, fiction and feminist poetics at San Diego State University where she founded the MFA program in creative writing. Her poetry has appeared in The American Poetry Review, The New Yorker, and The Paris Review among others. She is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a Pushcart Prize, and a PEN Syndicated Fiction Award.

In this MP3Lit.com exclusive, Alcosser recites her poem “The Entomologists’ Landscape.”

“Sandra Alcosser’s superbly sure-voiced poems possess intelligence and passion in equal measure, and they explore, question, surprise, and inform in utterly distinctive ways. Here is a poet who knows the fine-grained textures of thought, the precise distinctions of feeling, and the lush wisdom of language itself.” -Jane Hirshfield