Alexej Savreux is a poet, satirist, and art and music journalist. His books include Graffiti on the Window, Eat Me & Other Short Poems, Asoak in the Knight's Moat, The Ballad of Lady Vigilance, and the chapbooks The Arithmetic of the Heart and Blue Coffee.

 

Additionally, Alexej has authored or co-authored other works, including The Neo-Expressionist Mathematica, multiple unfinished screenplays, pulp novels, and cookbooks. A second-generation Czech-American born in Burlington, Vermont, he has spent most of his life in Colorado, Kansas, and Missouri. He has received grants from the University of Kansas, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), and the Charlotte Street Foundation.

 

Alexej is a proud Step Up Community Learning Center graduate and was a visiting artist at the Kansas City Art Institute in 2023. He lives in Kansas City, Missouri, where he works odd jobs. He contributes to various publications and presses locally, regionally, and nationally, and he previously served as a special correspondent for The Kansas City Star. 

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He also makes virtually uncategorizable graffiti and multimedia art with a playful and often purposeless bent. 

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