Poet Paul Allen will launch his new collection of poetry, “Ground Forces,” at Piccolo’s Sundown Poetry Series, City Gallery at Waterfront Park, Tuesday, June 3, 6:30-7:30 p.m. His presentation will include original songs.
For those of you who haven’t been to this particular Piccolo event, Paul Allen teaches poetry, form and meter, and lyric writing at College of Charleston. His poems have appeared Northwest Review, Southern Poetry Review, Cimarron Review, Southwest Review, Ontario Review, New England Review, Iowa Review, Puerto Del Sol, and The Southern Review, as well as in several anthologies.
He has received the South Carolina Arts Commission’s Individual Artist Fellowship in Poetry twice, the Mary Roberts Rinehart Award (George Mason University), the Vassar Miller Poetry Prize from the University of North Texas Press, the South Carolina Academy of Authors Fellowship, the John Williams Andrews Narrative Poetry Prize from Poet Lore, the Distinguished Research Award from The College of Charleston (2007), and a Pushcart Prize (2008).
Paul says the performance is best for audiences 17 and older: “There are some four letter words. One of the themes of this book show we plant ourselves into other people’s lives, and I wouldn’t want some young couple with children feeling uncomfortable. Life is hard enough without our making others’ lives harder.”
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