Alan wakes up every morning wondering if today is the day, and so far, every day has turned out to be the day. He spends some of those days working facilitating creative writing workshops in at-risk schools, and teaching 8th-grade sex education at his Unitarian Universalist church. Other days are spent biking, bird watching, and photographing dragonflies. As a long time member of the Dallas Poets Community, he serves on their Board of Directors and helps edit their literary journal, Illya’s Honey. Alan’s poetry has been published in many journals including Sentence, Main Street Rag, Borderlands, North Texas Review, and the Texas Poetry Calendar. In 2011, Red Fez nominated his work for a Best of the Net award, and in both 2011 and 2012, he Red River Review nominated his poems for Pushcart Prizes. One day Alan hopes to make the leap from anonymity to obscure regional poet |