Name Dick (poet) | Role Poet | |
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Education Brown University, Syracuse University Books This Shadowy Place: Po, Present vanishing, Ode to the Cold War, The day before, Flight and pursuit | ||
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Dick Allen (born August 8, 1939) is an American poet, literary critic and academic. From July 1, 2010, through June 30, 2015, he served as Connecticut's poet laureate. Allen has retired from his position as Charles A. Dana Endowed Chair Professor at the University of Bridgeport. He has been co-editor of several anthologies of science fiction and science fiction criticism. His book Overnight in the Guest House of the Mystic was a finalist for the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. He is one of the founders of the Expansive Poetry movement. His influences include Ralph Waldo Emerson, A.E. Housman, Ben Jonson, Robert Frost
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His poems have appeared in journals including Poetry, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, The Hudson Review, The Massachusetts Review, The Yale Review, Boulevard, The Gettysburg Review, JuxtaProse Literary Magazine, and The New Criterion.