Below the Dam

lan Gann is a teaching artist–poet who tutors and facilitates writing workshops at Texans Can Academy, an alternative high school. He is the author of two volumes of poetry, That’s Entertainment (Lamar University Press, 2018) and Adventures of the Clumsy Juggler (Inkbrush Press, 2014), as well as DaVerse Works (Big Thought, 2013), a performance poetry curriculum. Alan’s nonexistent spare time is spent outdoors: biking, birding, and trying to photograph some of the cool things he sees there.