Anne Lesley Selcer (also: Alx)

Anne Lesley Selcer (aka Alx) is a writer and artist. Their books include Sun Cycle and Blank Sign Book. Poetry appears in Baest, Fence, Annulet, Prelude and The Chicago Review among others. Art Writing has been commissioned for catalogs and monographs internationally. Their parallel, overlapping art practice has produced works shown at The Berkeley Art Museum, the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, The Moscow International Experimental Film Festival and other spaces. They recently curated Sky Will Learn Sky, a sound-based compilation of poets and sound artists. They have also curated the cross-disciplinary Chroma Reading Series and singular events for poets making art/artists using language. Their discipline transgressing research, criticism and creative work have been presented at Gestures: Writing That Moves Between, &Now and AWP, among places. Poetry criticism can be found in Jacket2, Formes Poetiques Contemporaines and SFMOMA’s Open Space. Writing is collected in multiple anthologies, including the forthcoming Writing on Raving. They have been awarded the CSU Poetry Center Book Prize and The Gazing Grain Prize, in addition to the Southern Exposure Art Writing Fellowship.

2025 Events
Lagniappe Reading 7