Grant Chemidlin ~ Poetry.LA Interview

GRANT CHEMIDLIN, a queer poet and author, reads from his new collection, “What We Lost in the Swamp" (Central Avenue Publishing, 2023), and discusses his work with poet Amanda Koenigsberg, host of Poetry.LA's "Poems By" interview series. Chemidlin is also the author of the chapbook, “New in Town” (Bottlecap Press, 2022), and the collection, “He Felt Unwell (So He Wrote This),” illustrated by Alexandra Lenihan, released in 2020. He was a finalist for the Gival Press Oscar Wilde Award and the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry and has had work published in Quarterly West, Iron Horse Literary Review, Tupelo Quarterly, and Saranac Review, among others. He posts his poems on Instagram @grantpoetry.