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Aug 15, 2024 | 
caninechronicle.com | Will Alexander
Click here to read the complete article178 – August, 2024By Will AlexanderI was just speaking with my friend Colin, which we do every couple days. Most of the time we talk about news going on at the shows. Colin is very intuitive and tends to know what’s going on before most, so it’s really a gossip catch-up, which is always fun, LOL. On this day he was going on about a Facebook post he read. In the post, the person was starting a new venture.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
caninechronicle.com | Will Alexander
It’s been a crazy summer. Extreme heat, volatile storms, yet the dog shows go on. Picture this–me standing under an ez-up, rain and wind so bad that the water is going sideways; I have my Irish Setter on the table and my generator purring as I’m doing my best to dry him before his next ring time. A young handler walks by me, chuckles and says, “why bother?!”. Funny how a simple statement like “why bother?” stirs up memories. It was 1986–the summer circuit. I was working for Garry MacDonald.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
poets.org | Ellen Hinsey |Will Alexander |Catherine Pierce
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
poetryfoundation.org | Will Alexander
To unlock predisposives in carbon to cancel sleep as pyretical drachma not as transaxial summa or intense aboriginal invasive but as promenade as forgery by craft as soiled apparitional anagram yes as a dark stochastic wheat drained of its magic as drift being boundary being hellish invention as grasp I am thinking of aroused electrical blockage of human monsoon killing as treaty as breach as strangled impulse by identity I mean the psychic root which is stained by dialectical illness by the...
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
brooklynrail.org | Will Alexander
Surrealism having gone beyond itself has encountered a form of unevenness, an impalpable flowing into a wider arc as utopian sigil. The higher state seems at present to endemically invoke rise into a celestial spectrum. Not as brazen subscription to prior tenet, but tenet as mantric higher maze. When I think of André Breton’s last living mesmeric with Octavio Paz as they commenced while ambulating across Les Halles, the now defunct produce sector of Paris.
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Feb 13, 2024 | 
caninechronicle.com | Will Alexander
Click here to read the complete article102 – February, 2024By Will AlexanderIt’s been almost four years since I officially retired from professional handling. I know there was that earlier time when I announced my retirement. My hip was so bad I just couldn’t drag my carcass around the ring. I received so many accolades, I started wondering when I had passed away. It truly was overwhelming. Makes me blush just thinking about them all.
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Jan 30, 2024 | 
townhall.com | Will Alexander
In 2008, I was standing with a few others behind a Cadillac hearse on the usually noisy tarmac at March Air Reserve Base in California’s Riverside County. Except for the flap of the American flag above the hearse’s headlight, a solemn silence cocooned the airfield as we waited for sailors carrying the casket of Marc Retmier to emerge from the belly of the Kalitta Charters Learjet. A royal red carpet stretched out from the plane to Marc’s family at the opposite end.
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Jan 17, 2024 | 
caninechronicle.com | Will Alexander
Click here to read the complete article256 – The Annual, 2023-24By Will AlexanderI often say to myself, “Will, you are one lucky guy”. There are many reasons I say this to myself. Sometimes it’s because I’m the only one who will listen to me. I am a lucky guy, though. This time I’m lucky because of the era in which I grew up. No cell phones, no social media. When I went to a dog show, I was consumed with the great dogs, great handlers, great judges–and dog shows that were events.
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Jan 8, 2024 | 
thebaffler.com | Will Alexander |Wen Stephenson
as for psychological pallor perhaps as audacious centipede as for molecules in motion script remains exploded & reconfigured as curious mirage as stark but ferocious cinder as far as dark embellished dragons myths occur that broker their own state so a secretive maze transpires not as harried cornucopia or spell but conjoined sensation as palpable root sans bifurcation as transactional priority but power that wafts as menacing compelled by saffron or greenish motif being greenish desert as...
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Aug 3, 2023 | 
nytimes.com | Anne Boyer |Will Alexander
Magazine|Poem: Powerless Self-Judgementhttps://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/03/magazine/poem-powerless-self-judgement.htmlWill Alexander’s visionary work achieves its effect through sound, not image. By Will AlexanderSelected by Anne BoyerAug. 3, 2023, 5:00 a.m. ETVisionary poetry, despite the word we use for it, so often achieves its effect through sound, not image. Cadence can shatter us, set the world ablaze. Will Alexander’s work is like this — oracular, oneiric, incandescent.
