Professor of Poetry and Program Co-Director
Office: AL-219 | Email:  [email protected]

Sandra Alcosser's poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Paris Review, Ploughshares,  Poetry  and the Pushcart Prize Anthology. She received two individual artist fellowships from National Endowment for the Arts, and her books of poetry, A FISH TO FEED ALL HUNGER and EXCEPT BY NATURE, received the highest honors from National Poetry Series, Academy of American Poets and Associated Writing Programs, as well as the Larry Levis Award and the William Stafford Award for Poetry. Her four artist book collaborations with Brighton Press have been exhibited internationally and reside in museum and special collections including The National Museum of Women in the Arts and Musee d’art Americain Giverny. She was the National Endowment for the Arts’ first Conservation Poet for the Wildlife Conservation Society and Poets House, New York, as well as Montana’s first poet laureate and recipient of the Merriam Award for Distinguished Contribution to Montana Literature. She founded and directs SDSU’s MFA each fall.

News | SDSU | Poems for Where the Wild Things Are

Have you never wanted
to spin like that
on hairy,leathered feet,
amid swelling berries
as you tasted a language
of early summer—shaping
lazy operatic vowels,
cracking hard-shelled
consonants like speckled
insects between your teeth--
have you never wanted
to waltz the hills
like a beast?

from What Makes the Grizzlies Dance