Allan Updates

Announcement: Salmon Press, Ireland, will publish my third full length book, "As Much As"  April, 2011


Panelist The 61st Conference on World Affairs, University of Colorado, Boulder 2009

                  http://www.colorado.edu/cwa/information.html

Included in:   "Don't Leave Hungry: Fifty Years of Southern Poetry Review" Anthology 2009

                        "Close Calls With Nonsense," by Stephen Burt, Graywolf 2009

Coeditor: The "Transformation" issue of qarrtsiluni, July/August 2008


Exhibtions:

 "Drawn to New York," Invitational Exhibition, Lederer Gallery, State University of New York, Geneseo

                                                                                          January 25, 2009-March 12, 2010

"None of the Above: An Assembling," Minnesota Center for the Book Arts, October 2009

 "Invitational Pencil & Paper Drawing Exhibition," Loyola University Gallery, New Orleans, LA

                                                                                         July -September  2008


Poetry Prizes:  Winner, 3rd Annual Boom Chapbook Prize from Bateau Press 2009

                               "Omnivore" now available:  http://www.bateaupress.org 

                             Winner, First Annual Dos Cosas Prize from Words and Images Journal 2009

                             Winner 2008 American Poet Prize from American Poetry Journal

                             Finalist, Gulf Coast Poetry Prize 2008

                             Finalist, Alligator Juniper Prize 2008

                             Pushcart nomination from Blue Fifth Review 2009 for poem "Please"


Recent poetry published:

Boston Review; Sawbuck; Press 1; Prick of the Spindle; Perigee; New South; Ouroboros; Valparaiso Poetry Review; LBJ Avian Life; Oranges and Sardines; Notre Dame Review; Salt River Review; New South; Girls With Insurance; The Seventh Quarry (Wales); Waccama Review; Blue Fifth; Caesura; The Pedestal; Other Voices International Project; The Potomac; Perihelion; River Styx; Triggerfish; Tusculum Review; Crazyhorse


Poetry forthcoming:

 Shenandoah, Denver Quarterly, Blackbird; The Paris Review, The Red Room: Writings from Press 1