Alex Dimitrov

I__ interested in connecting with readers and strangers through poetry. I want to create real intimacy with my poems. Whether I do that through pulling from my personal life or using my fantasy life__r say history, whether that history is personal history or our collective histories__hat__ important is that an experience is created. An experience that will hopefully matter to people and feel real. I want my poems to move people and make them want to live their lives, however complicated and impossible those lives may be. I think a poem can speak to the life you currently live but also to the lives you__e lived before, the ones to come and also those you__e yet to imagine. What else can do that? Not sex or money or other people.

Leaving town I sat next to a senseless and beautiful boywho asked where I live.His unwashed hair or the way his eyes were just eyes_the soul is a tiring thing. You can have it.I don__ know what you mean__ what I told him.It__ more simple than that. I__ just passing through.

I'll never get over the factthat the buildings all light up at night,and the night comes every nightand without regret we let it go.We sleep a little and we live.That's what we do.