David Alpaugh has published more than 400 poems in various literary journals and in anthologies that include the Dana Gioia-edited California Poetry from the Gold Rush to the Present. His first collection, Counterpoint, which won the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize in 1995, has just been reprinted by Red Hen Press as part of their Story Line Press Legacy Series. David’s most recent book, Spooky Action at a Distance, collects 79 of his “double-title” poems, a form he invented in 2015. A finalist for Poet Laureate of California, David teaches poetry for the University of California Berkeley Extension and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Learn more about him at www.davidalpaugh.com.