Dick Allen

Poet

Trumbull, CT

Connecticut US

Email:

rallen285@earthlink.net

Website:

zenpoemszenphotosdickallen.net

Author's Bio

Allen is variously known as a mystical poet, a poet concerned with recording the history of the century’s last fifty years and the beginning years of the 21st Century, a poet of contemporary science, a Zen Buddhist-oriented poet, and a poet whose eclectic style ranges from formal to free verse. In recent years, he has often written in a new narrative-lyric hybrid form of his invention that he calls “Randomism.”

Publications & Prizes

Anthology:

The Best American Poetry (Scribner, 2006)

Books:

Zen Master Poems (Wisdom Publications, 2016)

This Shadowy Place (St. Augustine's Press, 2014)

Present Vanishing: Poems (Sarabande Books, 2008)

The Day Before: New Poems (Sarabande Books, 2003)

Ode to the Cold War: New & Selected Poems (Sarabande Books, 1997)

Journals:

American Poetry Review

American Scholar

New Criterion

Tricycle

Yale Review

Prizes won:

2013 New Criterion Poetry Book Award,NEA Fellowship, Ingram Merrill Fellowship, Pushcart Prize, Robert Frost Prize, Hart Crane Fellowship, N.B.C.C. Finalist, CT Poetry Book Award (2009) , CT State Poet Laureate (2010-2015)

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now:

Japanese Ikebana for Every Season by Rie Imai and Yuji Ueno , Broken Cup by Margaret Gibson, The Accidental Universe by Alan Lightman, Best American Science and Nature Writing by Deborah Blum, Literary Connecticut by Eric J. Lehman and Amy Nawrocki

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

British, Buddhist

Prefers to work with:

Teachers

Born in:

Troy

Raised in:

Round Lake, NY

New York

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Last update: Dec 01, 2016