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Alan Feldman's Poetry |
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Alan
Feldman's latest collection,
A Sail to
Great Island, won the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry and is available
from the University of Wisconsin Press.
His first book of poems, The Happy Genius, won the 1978 Elliston Book Award for the best collection published by an independent press in the United States. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Poetry, Kenyon Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Best American Poetry 2001,and elsewhere, and has several times been selected as "poem of the day" on Poetry Daily and appears in the new anthology, Poetry Daily: 366 Poems from the World's Most Popular Poetry Website. He has received fellowships for poetry from The Massachusetts Artists Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Some of his most recent publications: a non-fiction book about Professor Elaine Beilin and her freshman writing class, State College 101, and an article in Harvard Review about his friend, Carl Dennis, Pulitzer Prize-winner in poetry for 2002. He is also the author of Lucy Mastermind, a novel for children, and a critical study of the poems of Frank O'Hara. In 2003 he published a sonnet sequence he wrote in Spain and France while his wife, the painter Nan Hass Feldman, was teaching there. Click here for a sample of the sonnets. Ms. Feldman's paintings--many inspired by the European landscape--are currently on display on her website. To view the chapbook cover, click here. To order copies of the chapbook, contact the poet.
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