Retired children’s librarian Alan Bern’s poetry books: No no the saddest and Waterwalking in Berkeley, Fithian Press; greater distance and other poems, Lines & Faces, his broadside press with artist and printer Robert Woods, linesandfaces.com. Alan’s poem “Boxae” was first runner-up for The Raw Art Review’s first Mirabai Prize for Poetry, 2020; he won a medal in 2019 from SouthWest Writers for a WWII story set in Italia; and he won the 2015 Littoral Press Poetry Prize. Alan has poems, stories, and photos published in a wide variety of online and print publications, from which his work has been nominated for Pushcart Prizes.