Birkelbach writes of the Texas landscape and its people with 
conversational ease, making his vivid descriptions shimmer 
through each poem. He balances the ordinary and the phenomenal, 
the factual and the suppositional, the temporal and the eternal in 
poems remarkable for their depth of insight. As Billy Bob Hill 
writes in his introduction to the volume, "Birkelbach can disguise a 
mosaic of word music in plain sight hidden in conversational 
English."

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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.


TCU Texas Poets Laureate Series