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Bio

(1939-2017) Poet, critic. Dick Allen was born in Troy, New York, and died in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

Full Name

Richard (Dick) Stanley Allen

Locations

Saratoga

Author's Timeline


Unknown

RESIDENCE

As a child, Mr. Allen lived in Round Lake, New York.

1939

BIRTH

Richard Stanley Allen was born in Troy, New York, on August 8, 1939.

1961

OTHER

Mr. Allen received a bachelor's degree from Syracuse University.

1971

LITWORK

Anon and Various Time Machine Poems
Delacorte Press, New York, New York

Poetry.

1975

LITWORK

Regions With No Proper Names
St. Martin's Press

Poetry.

1984

LITWORK

Overnight In The Guest House Of The Mystic
Louisiana State University Press
0807111651 ISBN-13: 978-0807111659
Poetry.

1987

LITWORK

Flight and Pursuit
Louisiana State University Press
0807114278 ISBN-13: 978-0807114278
Poetry.

1997

LITWORK

Ode to the Cold War: Poems New and Selected
Sarabande Books
0964115190 ISBN-13: 978-0964115194
Poetry.

2003

LITWORK

The Day Before: New Poems
Sarabande Books
1889330752 ISBN-13: 978-1889330754
Poetry.

2008

LITWORK

Present Vanishing
Sarabande Books
1932511644 ISBN-13: 978-1932511642
Poetry.

2010

OTHER

Mr. Allen was the poet laureate of Connecticut from 2010 to 2015.

2014

LITWORK

This Shadowy Place
St. Augustines Press
1587318598 ISBN-13: 978-1587318597
Poetry. Winner of the New Criterion Poetry Prize.

2016

LITWORK

Zen Master Poems
Wisdom Publications
161429299X ISBN-13: 978-1614292999
Poetry.

2017

DEATH

Richard "Dick" Allen died at St. Vincent's Medical Center in Bridgeport, Connecticut, on December 26, 2017.

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