William Allen
Bill is a visual artist as well as a poet. He has worked as a teacher at New York University, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, the Rhode Island School of Design, and University of Massachusetts at Lowell, where he currently teaches several online writing classes. He is a technical writer and instructional designer in the software industry, currently living in Providence, RI.
He has shown his work at the Clay Street Press Gallery, Momenta Gallery in Brooklyn, NY, Real Artways in Hartford, CT, Wheeler Gallery in Providence RI, Williams College, and others. His prints were featured in the Committed to Print exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 1990. Progressive Insurance of Cleveland, OH and Fidelity of Boston recently purchased paintings for their permanent collections.
His current collections of poems feature poems on paintings by Albert Pinkham Ryder and Edward Mitchell Bannister, as well as a long poem on the historical and political evolution of society after the turn of the 21st century, called A History of the Azores.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Man on the Moon (NYU/Persea Presses, 1987)
Sevastopol: On Photographs of War (Xenos Books, 1997).
Poems in Ploughshares, Minnesota Review, Chelsea, Indiana Review, Global City Review, American Voice, Crab Orchard Review, Denver Quarterly, The Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, Pequod, New Letters, Poetry East, and other publications.
He has published art reviews in Parkett, Flash Art, and a monograph on the sculptor Barbara Westermann published by the Freiburg Museum of Contemporary Art in Germany.
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