Born in New York City, relocated to Houston, Mike Alexander has published in several journals, such as Atlanta Review, Texas Review, Texas Observer, Measure, Rattle, River Styx, & Raintown Review. Alexander was an admin on the sonnet workshop at Sonnet Central in the early 2000s; over the years, he has orchestrated readings at multiple New Jersey & Texas venues. He also served on the board of Mutabilis Press, & as contribution editor for lyric & for The Panhandler. His chapbooks include January Y2K Blues, Blinded by Absinthe (Editions Elastique), & We Internet in Different Voices (EXOT Books). P&J Poetics published his full-length collection Retrograde in 2013.
PRAISE:
The poems in Mike Alexander’s The Necessary Slice show off his terrific range: they’ve got close observation, pointed wit, erudition, and all sorts of word-playful exuberance. Here are reverence along with irreverence, pure fun beside social commentary that’s packed into form like gunpowder. The poems display Alexander’s mastery of poetic craft, especially of the sonnet in all its variants and moods, and they demonstrate what that craft is good for: elevating not just love (in a delightful series of poems to his wife) and death (in moving remembrances of his mother), but every kind of small moment, so that the ordinary becomes the marvelous.
— Maryann Corbett, poet, medievalist, and linguist.
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