
Alex Lemon's
poetry collections include Hallelujah
Blackout (forthcoming in 2008 from Milkweed Editions),
Mosquito
(Tin House Books 2006) and the chapbook At Last Unfolding Congo
(horse less press 2007). A memoir is also forthcoming from Scribner.
His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous magazines, including
AGNI, BOMB, Denver Quarterly Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review, New England
Review, Open City, Pleiades and Tin House. His translations
(with Wang Ping) of a number of contemporary Chinese poets have appeared
in Tin House, Artful Dodge, New American Writing and other
journals. Among his awards are a 2005 Literature Fellowship in Poetry
from the National Endowment for the Arts and a 2006 Minnesota Arts Board
Grant. He co-edits LUNA:
A Journal of Poetry and Translation with Ray Gonzalez and is
a frequent contributor to The Bloomsbury Review.