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
,
Gettysburg Review
,
Massachusetts Review
,
New Criterion
,
Ploughshares
,
Poetry
,
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