An Introduction to Alison Granucci by Kristina Marie Darling


It is a widely known fact that Alison Granucci is an extraordinary literary citizen, with a remarkable career championing the literary arts through her speaker’s agency, Blue Flower Arts. But it is my belief that Granucci is among the most talented and undersung poets of her generation, and deserves a much wider audience for her accomplished poetry. She has a gift for confronting the most difficult truths of the human experience–from mortality to grief and the inevitability of suffering–and imbuing them with incredible beauty. I’m amazed by Graanucci’s ability to use language as a vehicle for transformation, metamorphoses, and ultimately redemption.

Alison Granucci is a poet and naturalist living in the Hudson Valley. In 2005, she founded Blue Flower Arts—the first literary speaker’s agency in the country to represent poets—and upon retiring in 2020, began to write poetry herself. Her work is published or forthcoming in RHINO (Second Place, Editor’s Prize), Tupelo Quarterly, Pangyrus, Terrain.org, About Place Journal, Great River Review, EcoTheo Review, Plant-Human Quarterly, Subnivean Journal (Poetry Award finalist), Crosswinds Poetry Journal, Humana Obscura, The Dewdrop, and the anthology, Little by Little, the Bird Builds Its Nest, by Paris Morning Publications. Her essay Teacher Bird was a nonfiction finalist in phoebe: a journal of art and literature. Alison’s awards include an Artist-in-residence at Trail Wood, homestead of naturalist Edwin Way Teale, and the first annual Vicious Circle Award from The Poetry Society of New York for her contributions to the world of poetry. She serves as a reader for The Rumpus and sits on the board of the newly forming Hellbender Gathering of Poets. Currently, Alison is at work on her first poetry collection as well as co-editing an anthology of new bird writing with J. Drew Lanham.