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An autobiography (in sonnets) by Michael Lally, Poetry honors include: NYC 92nd St. Y Poetry Center's 1972 Discovery Award for The South Orange Sonnets; two National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowships (1974 and 1981, the second attacked in Congress--the NEA accused of rewarding "pornography" for the poem "My Life"--in the first attempt to defund the NEA); 1997 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for "Excellence in Literature" for Cant Be Wrong; 2000 American Book Award for It's Not Nostalgia. In 2018 Another Way To Play: Poems 1960-2017 published. Also worked as script writer/"doctor," editor, columnist, book reviewer for The Village Voice and The Washington Post among other publications, and TV and film actor (as Michael David Lally). Writes the blog Lally's Alley on poetry, politics, movies, and other arts.