David Alpaugh's essay "The Professionalization of Poetry" has prompted much spirited-debate from poets on-line and off since it appeared earlier this year in Poets & Writers Magazine. His poetry collection Counterpoint won the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize and was published by Story Line Press in 1994. His poetry, drama, fiction and criticism have appeared in over 100 journals and anthologies, including Exquisite Corpse, The Formalist, Modern Drama, Poetry, Wisconsin Review and Zyzzyva. He coordinates and emcees a popular reading series in the San Francisco Bay Area, teaches at the U.C. Berkeley Extension, and operates Small Poetry Press, a chapbook design and printing company.