Alan Botsford

Alan Botsford is author of seven poetry collections, among them--mamaist: learning a new language which, as the Kyoto Journal wrote, “may be one of the first books of poems to transpire from our global civilization,” Possessions: Poems in American Poetry, Dreamer: Poems in Culture, and, most recently, Borderlines: An Astral Experience in Poems. He has also published the hybrid essay-dialogue-poetry collection Walt Whitman of Cosmic Folklore, about which American poet and critic William Heyen wrote, “If we’ll read this book as it was written, with Emerson’s ‘flower of the mind,’ it will enlarge our lives.” Born in Connecticut and educated at Wesleyan and Columbia, he is former editor of Poetry Kanto, Japan’s oldest East-West poetry journal.