Alan Feldman’s most recent collection, A Sail to Great Island (Wisconsin, 2004) won the Felix Pollak Prize. An earlier book, The Happy Genius (Sun, 1978), won the Elliston Book Award. He recently retired after 36 years of teaching and during the summer will lead a drop-in poetry workshop with Tony Hoagland in Wellfleet on Cape Cod. His poetry appears in Smartish Pace, Issues 3 and 16 (2009).