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 Allen Hoey published two collections of poetry and a novel
between 2005 and 2006. In April, 2005, FootHills Publishing released
Provençal Light, comprised of three sequences of poems,
including seven dramatic monologues in the voice of Vincent Van Gogh and
a set of poems involving the life and music of jazz composer and
musician Charles Mingus.
The Precincts of
Paradise, a selection of lyric poems spanning more than two
decades, was issued by WordTech Press in October 2005. In May, 2007,
Chasing the Dragon: A
Novel about Jazz was published. Hoey’s poems, essays, and
translations have appeared in numerous journals, including
The American Poetry
Review, The Georgia Review, The Hudson Review, Poetry, Shenandoah,
and The
Southern Review. One of his poems, “A Thousand Prostrations,”
appeared in Essential Zen (HarperCollins), and “Essay on Snow” appeared
in The Best Spiritual
Writing 2004 (Houghton Miffl in). Galway Kinnell selected his
manuscript A Fire in
the Cold House of Being for the 1985 Camden Poetry Prize, and
the book was published by the Walt Whitman Center in 1987. He was 2001
Bucks County Poet Laureate and received a 2002 Pennsylvania Council of
the Arts Fellowship. He currently serves as Director of the Bucks County
Poet Laureate Program. His most recent collection of poems,
Country Music,
will be released in installments as an e-book by subscription from North
Country Public Radio, beginning in February 2007. A second novel,
Voices Beyond the Dead,
set in the months immediately following 9/11 and during the
winter and spring of 1973, has been accepted for publication. Contact:
www. allenhoey.com.
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