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Forrest Gander

Forrest Gander was awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his collection Be With. Born in the Mojave Desert in Barstow, California, Gander resides in Petaluma.
ada limon, startlement

Circuit of Relation

In this newsletter, poet Forrest Gander writes about Ada Limón’s Startlement: New and Selected Poems, the November California Book Club pick.

Nov 11, 2025
stephen ratcliffe, poet

‘The Walt Whitman of Bolinas’

Stephen Ratcliffe’s thousand-page books of poems contain multitudes.

Sep 25, 2023
artwork by ashwini bhat is designed to complement forrest gander's poem

Not Without: A Poem

Pulitzer Prize winner Forrest Gander partnered with artist Ashwini Bhat to create this work, the collaborators’ first for Alta.

Nov 30, 2020