Brendan Allen

Brendan Allen is a recent graduate of Temple University’s MFA in poetry. Originally from Kansas, Brendan also holds an MA in Poetry and Poetics from the University of Maine, where he co-founded the cross-disciplinary performance series The Happenings Series. While at Temple, Brendan’s creative projects included CentoQuest, a choose-your-own-adventure, poem-generating video game, and the Philadelphia Park System, a poetic tour of parking lots and park-like spaces around the city. He now lives in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and teaches writing as an assistant professor at Trine University. His poetry has recently appeared in DIAGRAM, Prolit, BAG, Landlocked, and Voicemail Poems.

Contact: @allen.brendan on Instagram

Program/Graduation: MFA Poetry, 2021

Featured Work:
“Crosscut” in DIAGRAM 21.1
excerpt from The Corridors in Prolit Magazine
“Terra Rima (After Jack Collom)” in Voicemail Poems
Philadelphia Park System Walking Tours on YouTube

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