Alan Cohen was already a poet before he became a primary Care physician, teacher, and manager, and has been living a full and varied life. He has been writing poems for 60 years and has started to share some of his discoveries. He has had poems published in: Our Twentieth Century’s Greatest Poems, The Beast in a Cage of Words, “The New England Journal of Medicine,” “Adelaide Literary Magazine,” “Praxis Magazine,” “Rat’s Ass Review,” “Poetica Review,” “Ephemeral Elegies,” “Red Wolf Journal,” “Dissident Voice,” “Borrowed Solace,” “The Crossings,” “Literary Yard,” “Grand Little Things,” “The Fictional Café,” “Anti-Heroin Chic ,” “Grey Sparrow Journal,” “Humanist, The,” “Bangor Literary Journal,” “Stepaway Magazine,” “Clementine Unbound,” “The Blue Nib,” “PIF Magazine,” “Our Time,” “Credo Espoir,” “CHILLFILTR,” “Mad Swirl,” “Spadina Literary Review,” “Obsessed with Pipework,” “Artifact Nouveau,” “Red Planet,” “Down in the Dirt,” “Ink Sweat and Tears,” “Cough Syrup Magazine,” “Northwest Indiana Journal,” “Spillwords,” “Better than Starbucks,” “Halcyon Days,” “Klecksograph,” “Verbal ART,” “Sheila-na-Gig,” “The Pharos,” “Harmony Magazine,” “Madcap Review,” “The Road Not Taken,” “Founder’s Favourites,” “Waving Hands,” “Phenomenal Literature,” “Dreichmag,” “Stepaway Magazine,” “Poems in the Waiting Room,” “Literary Heist,” “Monterey Poetry Review,” “Cerasus,” “Westward Quarterly,” “Helix Magazine,” “River City Poetry,” “Tipton Poetry Journal,” “Uppagus,” “Silver Blade,” “The Wild Word,” “Seventh Quarry,” “Washtenaw Community College Anthology: Poetry Sustains: Heroes,” “International Poetry Review,” “Meniscus Literary Journal,” “Frost Meadow Review,” “Southlight,” “Big Windows Review,” “Taj Mahal Review,” “Wingless Dreamer’s Anthology Praised by December,” “Journal of Expressive Writing,” “Chronogram,” “JMWW,” “TERSE,” “Sandy River Review, The,” “Front Porch Review,” “Eskimo Pie” “Aberration Labyrinth,” “Cabildo Quarterly,” “Leaping Clear,” ”Blood and Thunder,” “In Parenthesis;” and has poems pending in 4 other venues; had an honorable mention in Ninth Annual Mississippi Valley Poetry Contest; and has had letters to the editor in Poetry Magazine. He’s been married to Anita for 42 years, in Eugene, OR these past 11.