Allen Braden

Allen Braden is an American poet.

Life

Braden graduated from McNeese State University with an MFA, where he studied with the poet John Wood.[1]

His work is published in The New Republic, Prairie Schooner,[2] Virginia Quarterly Review,[3] Shenandoah, Southern Review, and Georgia Review.

He was poet-in-residence for the Poetry Center and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

He teaches at Tacoma Community College.[4]

Awards
  • National Endowment for the Arts fellowship[5]
  • 2006 Artist Trust / Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship
  • Emerging Writers Prize from Witness magazine
  • Grolier Poetry Prize

Works
  • "Down the Silo", Umbrella, Fall 2007
  • "BOTH PORTRAITS"; "YOUR LIFE AS FOUND IN A TOOLBOX", In Posse Review, Winter 2006
  • A Wreath of Down and Drops of Blood. University of Georgia Press. 2009. ISBN 978-0-8203-3474-5.
  • The field burner. McNeese State University. 1997.

Anthologies
  • Best New Poets 2005
  • Spreading the Word: Editors on Poetry
  • Family Matters: Poems of Our Families. Bottom Dog Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0-933087-95-8.
  • David Lee Garrison; Terry Hermsen, eds. (2003). O taste and see: food poems. Bottom Dog Press. ISBN 978-0-933087-82-8.

References
  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20090508083219/http://mfa.mcneese.edu/alumni.htm. Archived from the original on May 8, 2009. Retrieved August 16, 2009. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/prairie_schooner/v082/82.3.braden.html
  3. Archived June 27, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
  4. "Tacoma Community College - Advantage Newsletter". Ezines.tacomacc.edu. 2006-02-22. Archived from the original on 2014-05-08. Retrieved 2014-05-07.
  5. Archived May 9, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
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