Alan Cohen has been composing poems for decades. He was poetry editor of his high school magazine; edited The Beast in a Cage of Words, a book of poems about nuclear weapons, in 1985; had a poem in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1977, one in The Road Not Taken in 2017. He is a retired physician, teacher and primary care manager. He has been married to Anita for 40 years and they live in Eugene, Oregon.
