Linguistic Reality
Alan Britt
One must sail beyond the existential
event horizon of faith, how ironic, to
discover words that digest reality.
One must inhale jasmine pheromones
through West Palm jalousies at the
very moment July humidity sweats
her hips against a cataract moon.
One must sniff each word the way dogs
greet one another, the reason words
were invented in the first place.
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In August 2015 Alan Britt was invited by the Ecuadorian House of Culture Benjamín Carrión in Quito, Ecuador as part of a cultural exchange between Ecuador and the United States. In 2018 he served as judge for the The Bitter Oleander Press Library of Poetry Book Award. His poetry has also appeared in Verse Daily. His interview at The Library of Congress for The Poet and the Poem aired on Pacifica Radio, January 2013. He has published 18 books of poetry, his latest being Gunpowder for Single-ball Poems; Ode to Nothing (bilingual English/Hungarian: Translated into Hungarian by Paul Sohar and published in Hungary: 2018); Crossing the Walt Whitman Bridge (Bilingual English/Romanian: Translated into Romanian by Flavia Cosma and published in Romania: 2017; Violin Smoke (bilingual English/Hungarian: Translated into Hungarian by Paul Sohar and published in Hungary: 2015). He is Poetry Editor for the We Are You Project International. A graduate of the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars he now teaches English/Creative Writing at Towson University.
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