“Alison Granucci does what great poetry does:
makes us really SEE.” —Richard Blanco

Alison Granucci is a poet, writer, naturalist, and photographer living in the Hudson Valley. In 2005, she founded Blue Flower Arts, a literary speaker’s agency—the first in this country to represent poets—and for fifteen years represented some of the most acclaimed contemporary writers. Upon retiring in 2020, she began, for the first time, to write poetry herself.

Alison’s poems are published or forthcoming in RHINO, Tupelo Quarterly, Terrain.org, Connecticut River Review, Plant-Human Quarterly, Subnivean, About Place Journal, Crosswinds Poetry Journal, Great River Review, EcoTheo Review, The Dewdrop, and an anthology of bird poems, Little by Little, the Bird Builds Its Nest (Petit à petit, l'oiseau fait son nid), by Paris Morning Publications. Her poem "Fragments" received second place in the RHINO Poetry 2024 Ralph Hamilton Editors' Prize; and a six-poem suite was a 2023 Subnivean Poetry Award finalist, judged by Kazim Ali. Her essay “Teacher Bird: or Meditations on Phoebe” was a creative nonfiction finalist in phoebe: a Journal of Literature and Art. Alison has published two essays about her experience with gun violence: “Straight to the Head” (Turning Wheel) and “Shot into Life” (ReVision) which received an Honorable Mention in The Best Spiritual Essays 1997.

Among her honors, Alison was awarded a 2023 Artist-in-residence at Trail Wood, the homestead of naturalist Edwin Way Teale; and in 2022 she received the first annual Vicious Circle Award from The Poetry Society of New York for her contributions to the world of poetry. A graduate of the Brooklyn Poets Mentorship Program, Alison serves as a reader for The Rumpus and sits on the board of the Hellbenders Gathering of Poets for environmental writing. She is currently at work on her first collection of poems as well as co-editing an anthology of new bird writing with J. Drew Lanham.

When not writing, she spends much of her time tending her woodland garden, an unending source of inspiration. A member of The Garden Club of America and retired Master Gardener, Alison offers her presentation The Wonder of Woodland Wildflowers: or Starting a Woodland Garden by Accident, illustrated with her photographs and poems, to other garden enthusiasts.

Previously a presenter of literary events, Alison curated the Spoken Word series at The Guthrie Center (Arlo Guthrie’s Church of Alice’s Restaurant fame) in the Berkshires. There she coproduced a conference in 2006, Resilience of the Human Spirit: An International Gathering of Poets, and later coproduced the award-winning documentary of the same name. Alison originated the weeklong Celebration of Poetry Conference at Omega Institute in the Hudson Valley, and the Blue Flower Arts Writing Conference in Florida in collaboration with the Atlantic Center for the Arts.

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