Author Profile: Alan Birkelbach
Biography »
Alan Birkelbach's volumes of poetry include No Boundaries,
Grand Prize Winner of the Pat Stodghill Book Publication Award,
and Weighed in the Balances, Grand Prize Winner of the Steves
Poetry Manuscript Competition. His work has been included in
eight anthologies, including Texas in Poetry 2 (TCU Press, 2002).
Birkelbach has served on the board of directors for the Poetry
Society of Texas for over ten years. A native of Texas, he lives and
works as an engineer in Plano.
Publications »
Folk SpacePosted in Feature 2, Ideas, Urban Planning on 23 November 2009
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Out west in San Angelo, an unassuming building doesn’t define culture to the community, it brings it to them.
Giuseppe Verdi Tuscano BertilucciPosted in Art, Feature 1, Fiction and Poetry on 9 November 2009
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Poetry
Perhaps one day Giuseppe turned left instead of right,
crossed this bridge instead of that,
misread a pharmacopoeia,
bought a glass of wine, did not buy a glass of wine.
Examining the FossilPosted in Art, Feature 1, Fiction and Poetry, Ideas on 21 September 2009
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Poetry
It’s flat–out impossible to believe there aren’t any good poets in Texas, writes 2005 Texas Poet Laureate Alan Birkelbach. Then how come only two poets are featured at this year’s Texas Book Festival? Birkelbach takes a look at the state of the state’s sages. Plus: A poem by Birkelbach.
