John Angell Grant
Bay Area poet John Angell Grant is the author of The Green Notebook, a collection of poems issued by Eyepublishewe in San Francisco. Grant’s poetry has appeared in Tangents, Jeudi des Mots (translated into French by Marilyne Bertoncini), Behind a Door, Mots de PaiX et d’Espérance, Time to Arrive, and elsewhere. An award-winning filmmaker, Grant is also the author of Women and Religion in the Modern Drawing Room, a scholarly study of poet T.S. Eliot’s late plays. Grant’s short films “Two Stoners” and “1958” have won multiple awards over the past year. Grant is also the author of 12 fully produced stage plays. He was playwright-in-residence at Berkeley’s Bare Stage, and a member of the OATCO Playwrights Unit in San Francisco. John’s play LANGUAGE AS COMMUNICATION was produced in New York by the Manhattan Class Company (MCC), as well as in Los Angeles at the Gardner Stage and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Locally, his play “A Package for Max” was produced at the Pear Theater in Mountain View, as well as in Chicago by New Branch Theater.Grant’s serialized novel Palo Alto Odyssey ran in the Palo Alto Daily Post. A second serialized novel, A Deadly Secret, also ran in the Palo Alto Daily Post. Grant has worked in video production, where he produced a television series on the Holocaust, as well as 100 two-minute films.He has written for American Theater magazine and many other publications, authoring 2,000 theater reviews, and 300 poems. Grant has a B.A. in Comp Literature from Columbia, and an MLA from Stanford.
The awakening began in a small grove of black oak trees on Collins Street in Fort Worth Texas. Then the road wound around a few stops in other towns and cities of Texas, Zapata, Del Rio, and finally ending with radio days in Space City. Under summer fog, the strong lure of Berkeley Dane Ince came west to study fine art and acting and to write ever so occasionally. Personal tragedy and the pandemic focused the artist’s mind and hundreds of poems have resulted along with special online programing events on Facebook. “Outrage Against Racism” which was produced on the author’s birthday and happens to land on Holocaust Remembrance Day followed by St. Valentine’s Day Mascara an inclusive international and grown-up version of the celebration, Juneteenth was produced on the inaugural national holiday for the celebration of freed slaves in America, an international Day of the Dead event, and most recently, an event being a poetic gathering of writers from around the world in support of Ukraine. Dane Ince is an internationally published poet, named Beat Poet Laureate for California, and hosts a weekly open mic – Time to Arrive, and founder of EYEPUBLISHEWE.