Alan Basting

Alan Basting was born in Detroit in 1949. He graduated from Maumee High School in northwest Ohio. He attended Earlham College and received his undergraduate degree from University of Cincinnati. Later he earned graduate degrees from Colorado State University and Bowling Green State University. He taught writing and literature at the University of Cincinnati and Owens Community College in Toledo. His chapbooks include Singing from the Abdomen, Stone-Marrow Press; What the Barns Breathe, Windows Press; Suddenly, Herons, The Writers’ Cooperative of Toledo; and Deep Time, Daily Habits and Events, from The Arts Commission of Toledo, Ohio. His collection, Nothing Very Sudden Happens Here, was published by Lynx House Press, Spokane, WA, in late 2013. Poems for his new chapbook, Home and Away, from Finishing Line Press in Georgetown, KY, (2019) have appeared in The American Journal of Poetry; Birch Gang Review; Walloon Writers Review; Fungi Magazine; Blueline, and Common Ground Review. Most of the year, he lives in the middle of the Manistee National Forest near the village of Bitely, MI. More of Alan's story and poetry from nearly all of his chapbooks can be found at www.alanbastingpoetry.com Please visit him there.