Allman's prose poems go forth in a kind of wanderjahr to discover or be discovered. These prose poems possess a different kind of urgency, a vitality that almost defies boundaries, and a freedom to span discourses and leap across vocabularies.
John Allman taught at Cazenovia College in Central New York State and, for 26 years, at Rockland Community College of the State University of New York. He is retired and lives in Katonah, New York, with his wife, Eileen Allman, also a writer. His awards include the Helen Bulls Prize from Poetry Northwest and a Pushcart Poetry Prize; he was twice awarded National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships in Poetry. He is the author of many collections of poetry and is also the author of a collection of fiction.
