- Poetry writing
- Writing song lyrics
- Freshman composition
- Sound, form, and meter in poetry
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Profile
Paul Allen teaches poetry writing and writing song lyrics at The College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina, where he has taught since 1974. Published in numerous journals and anthologies, his work includes American Crawl (Vassar Miller Poetry Prize UNT Press, 1997); the chapbook, His Longing: The Small Penis Oratorio (FootHills Publishing, Kanona, NY, 2005), which is a sequence of metaphysical conceits; and Ground Forces (Salmon Poetry, Ireland, 2008). He has also produced a CD of poems and songs, The Man with the Hardest Belly (2001), available on Napster, and a new CD of original songs, Waiting for the Last Bus (2009), available at CD BABY (http://cdbaby.com/cd/paulallen). “Juice,” his essay on coming to an eclectic taste in poetry, received a Pushcart Prize in 2007.
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Recent Publications
"Juice," a personal essay on Zimbabwean poetry in The Southern Review (Winter, 2006): 126-143
Poems in Margie, The Southern Review, Northwest Review, Southern Poetry Review, Poetry Northwest, Ontario Review, New England Review, Iowa Review, Puerto Del Sol
Pedagogical essays on teaching freshman composition appear in ADE Bulletin (Association of Departments of English), English Journal, and Writing on the Edge.
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