The Door Left Open And other poems...

The poems included in the poetry collection are marked by precise observation. These poems are quite impressive in originality and variety. Due to emotional depth, the intensity and richness of these poems is beyond question. The poems are remarkable in their immediacy and powerful imaginative power. No doubt, these poems reveal 'incantatory murmur and inspired bursts'. BIONicholas Damion Alexander is a Jamaican writer living in the USA. His poems, articles, letters, reviews, interviews and stories have been published in online and printed journals, magazines, newspapers, blogs and anthologies worldwide. In 2008, he won a fellowship with Calabash International Writers' Fellowship. In 2015, he served as Red Bones Blues Cafe, Kingston's top live poetry scene, poet of the year. In 2018, he became a fellow of The Watering Hole in South Carolina, where he participated in their inaugural manuscript fellowship. Some of the poems in this, his first official collection, were part of that assemblage.