The Poetry Project

Alex is a white woman wearing a black baseball-style cap, a black denim jacket with a visible red bag strap over the right shoulder. She is at the beach and the image shows a sandy beach stretching into the Atlantic ocean. She is wearing small gold hoop earrings and her hair, long and grey, is in two braids. She is smiling with a closed mouth and looking at the camera.

Alex Cuff is learning to metabolize grief into a presence that keeps her in relationship to herself and community. A high school teacher, and an editor of the Brooklyn-based poetry magazine No, Dear, she is the author of Family, a Natural Wonder (Reality Beach) and I Try Out A Sentence to See Whether I Believe (Ghost Proposal). Her first full-length collection, Common Amnesias, was published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2024. She lives in Flatbush, Lenapehoking, with her partner, and feline extended family: Karl, Kuma and Medb.