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

Alison Granucci is a Pushcart-nominated 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, at the age of 62, to write poetry herself.

Alison’s poems are published or forthcoming in RHINO, Tupelo Quarterly, Terrain.org, Pangyrus, Connecticut River Review, Plant-Human Quarterly, Subnivean, About Place Journal, Crosswinds Poetry Journal, Great River Review, Emerge Literary Journal, EcoTheo Review, The Dewdrop, Humana Obscura, and Earthshine, as well as the anthology Little By Little the Bird Builds its Nest. Her poem "Fragments" received second place in the RHINO Poetry Ralph Hamilton Editors' Prize (2024) and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize; and a six-poem suite addressing her personal experience with gun violence was a Subnivean Poetry Award finalist (2023), judged by Kazim Ali. Alison also 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. Her piece “Teacher Bird: or Meditations on Phoebe” was a creative nonfiction finalist in phoebe: a journal of literature and art. 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.

Among her honors, Alison was awarded a 2023 Artist-in-residence at Trail Wood, 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 2022 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.

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 with filmmaker Katja Esson. Alison originated the weeklong Celebration of Poetry Conference at Omega Institute in the Hudson Valley, and the Blue Flower Arts Writing Conference in collaboration with the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida.

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