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Intrastate Lines
by Alexandra “Zan” Delaine Hailey
This book is funded in part by FLP’s One Last Word Program. ONE LAST WORD helps to bring the last works of gifted poets to the world.
Paper
List: $17.99
979-8-88838-514-2
2024
In a year of frequent intrastate travel, Alexandra “Zan” Delaine Hailey collected images of the Virginia landscape, the arts, the music of rock and rave, fusing them together into a series of tightly crafted poems. In Intrastate Lines, she takes readers on a meandering journey, capturing creatures, colors, tunes, and textures witnessed in nature, on highways, backroads, and celestial pathways, each poem, celebrating a moment—treasured yet ordinary. Together, the poems form a meditation, a celebration of life—her life and ours.
Alexandra “Zan” Delaine Hailey (1992-2018)—writer, visual artist, dancer—served as an inaugural poet laureate in Prince William County, VA, 2014-2016. Her poet laureate project, “Ekphrasticize That!” focused on ekphrastic writing and art and inspiration from the letters of Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo. Hailey studied English and Creative Writing at Virginia Commonwealth University, where Gary Sange, Gregory Donovan, and David Wojahn helped her hone her poetry. Her writing has been published in The Northern Virginia Review, A Wreath of Golden Laurels: An Anthology of Poetry by 100 Poets Laureate, Written in Arlington, The Poetry Society of Virginia Centennial Anthology, New Departures: Write By The Rails Anthology, and Virginia Commonwealth University’s Focused Inquiry Textbook.
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