David
Alpaugh’s poetry, fiction, drama, and criticism have appeared in more
than 100 literary journals and anthologies. His first collection COUNTERPOINT won the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize from Story Line Press and his chapbooks have been published by Coracle
Books and Pudding House Publications. His controversial essay “The
Professionalization of Poetry” (serialized by Poets & Writers
Magazine in 2003) drew hundreds of emails and wide discussion on the Internet. A graduate of Rutgers University and the University of California,
Berkeley, he has taught at the U.C. Berkeley Extension;
publishes the Carquinez Poetry Review; and hosts one of the San Francisco Bay Area's most popular poetry reading series at the Valona Delicatessen in Crockett. David Alpaugh's HEAVY LIFTING
(Poems 1995 through 2006) is the first volume of poetry to be published
by San Francisco-based publisher ALEHOUSE PRESS.
Noted for his wit and humor, David Alpaugh is one of the most popular poets in the San Francisco Bay Area where he has been a featured reader at book stores, cafés, colleges, civic centers and other venues more than 100 times. You can see and hear David read his poetry on the TV/Audio page.
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or write to:
Small Poetry Press
P.O. Box 5342
Concord, CA 94524
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