About Dick Allen and Boulevard

Today's poem is "The Way You Hold Your Knife"

from Boulevard

Dick Allen is the author of eight poetry collections, including Present Vanishing (Sarabande Books, 2008). He was the Charles A. Dana Professor of English and director of creative writing at the University of Bridgeport, Connecticut, where he taught from 1968 to 2001. He served as poet laureate of the state of Connecticut from 2010 to 2015. He died on December 27, 2017.
Other poems by Dick Allen in Verse Daily:
January 31, 2009: "Pixels" "Each small thing he examines, every microdot..."
September 20, 2007: "As If I Wasn't There" " True talent, what is that, we wondered..."
Books by Dick Allen:

Other poems on the web by Dick Allen:
Thirty-six poems
"What You Have to Get Over"
"If You Get There Before I Do"
Four poems
Four poems
"Cloud No Bigger Than a Man's Hand"
Four poems
Five poems
Two poems
Two poems
"What You Have to Get Over"
"Solace"
Dick Allen According to Wikipedia.
About Boulevard:

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Other poems by Boulevard in Verse Daily:
June 11, 2019: "On Kingdoms" Joanna Klink
June 10, 2019: "Calenture" Allison Hutchcraft
February 2, 2018: "The Song of the Practical" by Albert Goldbarth
January 31, 2018: "Triceratops ♥ You" by Owen McLeod
May 11, 2017: "Pennies from Heaven" by John Blair
July 22, 2016: "Ghost Encounter" by Annah Browning
December 13, 2015: "Room Key" by David Lehman
December 11, 2015: "It Does Kind of Burn. Goodbye." by Henry Crawford
December 10, 2015: "The Night and the Cold" by Charles Simic
November 5, 2014: "At Last" by Gerald Stern
November 3, 2014: At Last by Edward Nobles
January 16, 2013: "Report from the Provinces" by Wayne Miller

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