Poet Alan Feldman
Alan Feldman's A Sail to Great Island (2004) won the Pollak Prize for Poetry from the University of Wisconsin. The Happy Genius (1978)
won the annual George Elliston Book Award for the best collection
published by a small, U.S. non-profit press. His work has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, the New Yorker, and Kenyon Review, among many other magazines, and included in The Best American Poetry 2001 (edited by Robert Hass) and BAP 2011 (edited by Kevin Young). Feldman's recent work appears in Hanging
Loose, Cimarron Review, upstreet, Southern Review, Yale Review,
Salamander, Southwest Review, Cincinnati Review, Catamaran, Worcester
Review, and online in Boston Poetry Magazine and Cortland Review. His poem "A Man and A Woman" was featured in Tony Hoagland's 2013 article for Harper's, "Twenty Little Poems That Could Save America."
Feldman was a professor and chair of English at Framingham State University, and for 22 years taught the advanced creative writing class at Harvard University's Radcliffe Seminars. He offers
free, drop-in poetry workshops at the Framingham (MA) public library
near his home, and in the summer at the Wellfleet library.
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