William Allen is a poet and painter who is currently interested in place names and taxonomies of all kinds, especially those with scientific agencies doing the naming. He teaches writing at UMass Lowell online, and has taught at RISD, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art, the School of Visual Arts, and in the English department at New York University.

This year he is working on a book of poems that speak to Albert Pinkham Ryder paintings and has work in the upcoming Providence Library show, the Shadow Show at Real Artways in Hartford, Ct., as well as a late-2007 or early 2008 exhibition at Clay Street Press Gallery with Birgit Jensen, Jochen Saueracker, and Barbara Westermann.

He has shown his artwork widely, including the E|AB art fair in NYC in the fall of 2006 and 2007, P.S. 1 Institute for Art & Urban Resources, the Museum of Modern Art, East West Cultural Connections, Momenta Art, in New York, Clay Street Press and Michael Solway gallery in Cincinnati, OH, Wheeler Gallery, Providence Art Club, White Electric Coffee in Providence, RI, and at Williams College, the Newark Art Museum and Aljiri Arts Center of NJ, and the Norton Sculpture Gardens in West Palm Beach, FL.

He has work in the permanent collection of Fidelity Investments of Boston.

His word art editions are published by Clay Street Press Graphics of Cincinnati, OH and include Seven Wonders of the World, Seven Seas, Ten Commandments, Fire Sermon, Two Dreams, Lapis Lazuli, and Three Pillows. He is included in a show of Fluxus artists in the fall of 2006

His word-art multiples are available from:
Mark Patsfall Graphics, Inc.
1312 Clay Street
Cincinnatti, Ohio 45210
TEL 513-241-3232/FAX 513-241-3029

His poetry books include: Sevastopol:  On Photographs of War, Xenos Press, 1997 and The Man on the Moon, New York University, 1987

Poems published in American Voice, Central Park, Chelsea, Crab Orchard Review, Defined Providence, Denver Quarterly, Indiana Review, New Letters, Newport Review, Newport Museum monograph on James Baker, The Quarterly, Pequod, Poetry East, Prairie Schooner, Southern Poetry Review, Ploughshares (editor Paul Muldoon).
Recent poetry readings include Chester College, A.S. 220 in Providence, RI, Wheeler Gallery, with Patricia Spears Jones (with exhibition of paintings), October 2005; White Electric Coffee with Kathleen Hughes, A History of the Azores, March 2005; Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Crisis and Response Show, Poems of Love and War, January 2003, Yaddo Corporation (summer 1998), New York University, the Museum of Modern Art (Pasolini poetry reading with Isabella Rossellini, etc)., Black + Herron Gallery, Brooke Alexander Gallery, St. Mark’s Poetry Project, The Knitting Factory, La Mama La Galleria, United Nations Coffee House (Poems against the War), Tin Pan Alley, Penine Hart Gallery, and others in NYC.

His first book, The Man on the Moon, is available from New York University and Persea Press.
ISBN 0-8147-0588-X hardcover
ISBN 0-89255-114-3 paperback

Sevastopol: On Photographs of War was published by Xenos Books
Riverside, California, in 1997.
ISBN 1-879378-30-2 hardcover
ISBN 1-879378-29-9 paperback

He's interested to meet especially any poets who work with images, or visual artists who work with words. Comments from all readers would be appreciated.

Email: livingrm@gmail.com