Michael Lally

Michael Lally: was awarded the 92nd St. Y Poetry Center’s Discovery Award 1972; National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowships (‘74 & ’81, latter attacked in Congress for rewarding “pornography” for the poem My Life in first attempt to defund the NEA); 1997 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award; 2000 American Book Award for It’s Not Nostalgia. Latest books Another Way To Play: Poems 1960-2017, and Say It Again: An Autobiography In Sonnets. Day jobs included TV and film actor (as Michael David Lally).