Portfolio
Recent Reviews online at www.writersforum.org/
First Draft Reviews Online, Alabama Writers' Forum, August 2009
Meeting Myself 'Round the Corner
First Draft Reviews Online, Alabama Writers’ Forum, April 2008
A Murmuration of Starlings
First Draft Reviews Online, Alabama Writers’ Forum, April 2008
Focus on Fitness: 5 Steps to a Healthier Lifestyle
First Draft Reviews Online, Alabama Writers’ Forum, August 2008
Even the Hollow My Body Made is Gone
Earlier Reviews
Alford, Bruce. (2006, Fall). Parables and Revelations. [Review of Crunk, T., Parables and Revelations]. First Draft, p 31.
Alford, Bruce. (2005, Spring). Outlandish Blues. [Review of Jeffers, H., Outlandish Blues]. First Draft, pp. 24-25, 28.
Alford, Bruce. (2004, Fall). The Actual Moon, The Actual Stars. [Review of Forhan, C., The Actual Moon, The Actual Stars]. First Draft, pp. 22-23.
Alford, Bruce. (2004, Fall). Someone Else’s Name. [Review of Harrison, J., Someone Else’s Name]. First Draft, pp. 18-19.
Alford, Bruce. (2003, Spring). Belloqu’s Ophelia. [Review of Trethewey, N., Belloqu’s Ophelia]. First Draft, p 24-25.
Performances:
Alford, B. E. (Performer). (2010). University of Alabama Visiting Poet. Tuscaloosa, AL.
Alford, B. E. (Performer). (2009). Gulf Coast Poetry Tour [Poetry Reading]. Mobile, AL.
Featured poets from around the South and U.S. (including Lorna Dee Cervantes, Sue Walker, Mary Carol Moran, Willie James King, Jennifer Horne, Joseph Wood, Irene Latham, and Sue Scalf).Alford, B.A. (Performer). (2009). Limestone Dust Poetry Festival [Poetry Reading]. Huntsville, AL.
Alford, B.A. (Performer). (2009). The Rape Crisis Center for Children and Adults [Take Back the Night Poetry Reading]. Mobile, AL.
Mobile, AL.Alford, B.A. (Performer). (2008). Poetry Outloud: Alabama Region 1 Competition [Contest Judge]. Mobile, AL.
Alford, B.A. (Performer). (2008). The Pensters 42nd Anniversary [Creative Nonfiction Seminar / Contest Judge].
Fairhope, AL.
Alford, B.A. (Performer). (2009). LoDa Art Walk [Poetry Contest Judge]. Mobile, AL.
Alford, B.A. (Performer). (2008). Terminal Switching [Poetry Reading]. The Bakery. Mobile, AL.
Alford, B.A. (Performer). (2008). Terminal Switching [Poetry Reading]. The 3rd Annual Alabama Book Festival.
Montgomery, AL.
Alford, B.A. (Performer). (2007). Terminal Switching [Poetry Reading]. University of South Alabama. Mobile, AL.
Alford, B.A. (Performer). (2007). Favorite Poem Reading [Presenter]. University of South Alabama. Mobile, AL.
Alford, B.A. (Performer). (2007). Terminal Switching [Lectures]. Willamette University; Salem, Oregon.
Alford, B.A. (Performer). (2007). Terminal Switching [Poetry Reading]. Hammond, LA.
Alford, B.A. (Performer). (2007). Whatever Remembers Us [Poetry Reading]. Spring Hill College, Mobile, AL.
Alford, B.A. (Performer). (2007). Terminal Switching [Poetry Reading]. University of South Alabama. Mobile, AL.
Alford, B.A (Performer). (2007). Memorial Day with novelist Olympia Vernon [Poetry Reading]. Hammond, La.
Alford, B.A (Performer). (2007). LoDa Art Walk [Book Signing/Lecture]. Mobile, AL
Alford, B.A (Performer). (2007). The Rape Crisis Center for Children and Adults [Take Back the Night Poetry Reading]. Mobile, AL.
Alford, B.A (Performer). (2007). Poetry Theatre USA [Poetry Reading]. Mobile, AL.
Alford, B.A (Performer). (2007). Sigma Tau Delta Awards Ceremony [Fiction Reading]. University of South Alabama.
Mobile, AL:
Alford, B.A. (Performer/Panelist). (2006). The Eugene Walter Writer’s Festival [Poetry Reading]. Mobile, AL: Radisson Admiral Semmes Hotel.
Alford, B.A (Performer). (2006). Martin Luther King Day Observance [Poetry Reading]. Mobile, AL:
301 Government Plaza.
Alford, B.A (Performer). (2006). LoDa Art Walk [Poetry Reading]. Mobile, AL: Downtown.
Alford, B.A (Performer). (2006). Guest Reading to Sue Walker’s Workshop [Poetry Reading]. Mobile, AL: University of South Alabama.
Alford, B.A. (Performer/Panelist). (2005). The Eugene Walter Writer’s Festival [Poetry Reading]. Mobile, AL: Radisson Admiral Semmes Hotel.
Alford, B.A (Performer). (2005). Gulf Coast Association of Creative Writing Teachers [Fiction Reading]. Fairhope, AL: University of South Alabama, Baldwin County Campus.
Alford, B.A (Performer). (2004). USA’s Elderhostel Program, Odyssey [Fiction Reading]. Mobile, AL: University of South Alabama.
Alford, B.A (Performer). (2004). Gulf Coast Association of Creative Writing Teachers [Poetry Reading]. Fairhope, AL: University of South Alabama, Baldwin County Campus.
Alford, B.A (Performer). (2004). Poetry Theatre USA [Poetry Reading]. Mobile, AL: Satori Sound, 5460 Old Shell Road.
Alford, B.A. (Performer/Panelist). (2004). The Eugene Walter Writer’s Festival [Poetry Reading]. Mobile, AL: Radisson Admiral Semmes Hotel. (http://www.usavanguard.com/2.2311/writer-s-festival-a-success-1.185620#4)
Alford, B.A (Performer). (2004) Conflict in Southern Writing [Poetry Reading] Troy University Conference.
Alford, B.A (Performer). (2003). The Nature Conservancy Reading, Splinter Hill Bog Project[Essay Reading]. Railroad Depot, Downtown, Mobile, Alabama.
Alford, B.A (Performer). (2003). Gulf Coast Association of Creative Writing Teachers [Poetry Reading]. Fairhope, AL: University of South Alabama, Baldwin County Campus.
Alford, B.A (Performer). (2003). ArtBurst, [Poetry Reading]. Unitarian Universalist Church of Birmingham, Alabama.
Alford, B.A (Performer). (2002). ArtBurst, [Poetry Reading]. Unitarian Universalist Church of Birmingham, Alabama.
Book
Alford, Bruce. (2007). Terminal Switching. John J. Chambers (Ed.), Elk River Review Press.
Poems
Louisiana Literature publishes some of the finest poetry, fiction and reviews produced in the country. Work from the journal’s pages is regularly reprinted in collections and anthologies and included in such prestigious venues as Best American Poetry and Short Stories and New Stories from the South.
Beyond Local
Professor Alford is the University of South Alabama's Liaison to the Gulf Coast Association of Creative Writing Teachers, an organization that draws creative writing teachers from Louisiana to Georgia and Florida. He was a Visiting Professor at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, where he was invited by the novelist Olympia Vernon. He is a member of the Pacific Northwest Writers Association because of his ties with Anne Mini, the step-daughter of renowned science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick. Mini has worked closely with Alford in the editing and revising of his novel.
In 2008 professor Alford read at the Poetry SouthWest, The Alabama Book Festival's poetry venue.
Featured poets from Red Hen Press, California's leading independent publisher, and Alabama, Kentucky and Georgia were presented. This poetry stage promoted a cross-country fertilization of Alabama's vibrant literary landscape with other states. Presses from Alabama that were represented included Elk River Review Press, Negative Capability, River City Publishing.
In addition to Red Hen Press, other presses included Fleur de Lys Press, Houghton Mifflin, Settlement House Press, Southern Illinois University Press, Tebot Bach Press, and Tupelo Press.
Some of the authors in attendance included: Pulitzer prize winner, Natasha Trethewey (Native Guard, Houghton Mifflin); Nickole Brown (Sister: Poems, Red Hen Press); Pulitzer prize winner Jake Adam York (A Murmuration of Starlings, SIU Press); and Emma Bolden, Edge by Edge, Toad Lily Press).
In 2007, Alford was invited to attend a special awards ceremony, the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence,at the Shaw Center for the Arts in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
About Elk River Review:
Elk River Review Press books have won numerous awards. It has a stellar reputation in Alabama in regard to publishing outstanding poetry books in a time when NewSouth Press has moved to Louisville, Kentucky and the university presses are publishing as few as one poetry book a year.
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Alford, B. (Forthcoming 2011). Odysseus. African American Review.
Alford, B. (Forthcoming 2011). How Far Would You Get Without the Devil. African American Review.
Alford, B. (2010). Metropolitan Gardens. Imagination & Place Press.
Alford, B. (Forthcoming 2010). Dancing with Tall Creole Woman. Louisiana Literature, 27(2).
Alford, B. (Forthcoming 2010). The Street We Lived On. Louisiana Literature, 27(2).
Alford, B. (2009). Congo. Third Wednesday, 32-33. Publication information at (http://thirdwednesday.org/).
Alford, B. ( 2009 January 26). When You Say Love. Vanguard, Fine Arts section.
Alford, B. (2008). The Leper. Broken Bridge Review, Vol.3 172-173.
Publication information at (http://www.lintelsashandsill.org/about/).
Alford, B. (2008). Bread. The Alembic,12.
Publication information at (http://www.providence.edu/English/Alembic/).
Alford, B. (2008). Daisy is Lost. Poetry Letter & Literary Review, 1.8.
Alford, B. (2008). II Daisy is Lost. Poetry Letter & Literary Review, 1.8.
Publication information at (http://californiaquarterly.blogspot.com/).
Alford, B. (2007). Rappelling at Eagle’s Point. S.B. Walker & J. Chambers (Eds.), Alabama Anthology; Whatever Remembers Us (p. 3). Mobile, Alabama: Negative Capability Press
Alford, B. (2006). To My Mother Who Smokes Too Much. Jake Adam York (Ed.), Thicket: A Journal of Alabama Literature (www.storysouth.com/thicket/poems/alford_four_poems.html).
Alford, B. (2006). Handle With Care. Jake Adam York (Ed.), Thicket: A Journal of Alabama Literature (www.storysouth.com/thicket/poems/alford_four_poems.html).
Alford, B. (2006). Heaven. Jake Adam York (Ed.), Thicket: A Journal of Alabama Literature
Alford, B. (2006). The Paper Ark. Jake Adam York (Ed.), Thicket: A Journal of Alabama Literature (www.storysouth.com/thicket/poems/alford_four_poems.html).
Alford, B. (2003). Hosea Preaches. Jack B. Bedell (Ed.), Louisiana Literature Vol. 20, No. 2, Fall / Winter, 24-25. Click Here to View Hosea Preaches.
Alford, B. (2003). The Philosophy of Moll Flanders. Jack B. Bedell (Ed.), Louisiana Literature Vol. 20, No. 2, Fall / Winter, 21-23. Click Here to View Moll Flanders.
Alford, B. (2003). They Wander Each and Each Alike. Splinter Hill Bog: The Writing Project (Nature Conservancy), 2-6.
As the official publication of the Division on Black American Literature and Culture of the Modern Language Association, the quarterly journal African American Review promotes a lively exchange among writers and scholars in the arts, humanities, and social sciences who hold diverse perspectives on African American literature and culture.
Short Story
Alford, B. (2001). The Football Boy.
My Legacy, 1(32)., 21-26.
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Crafting Truth: Short Studies in Creative Nonfiction
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