

{"id":1106,"date":"2021-11-17T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T17:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/?p=1106"},"modified":"2021-11-10T18:27:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T23:27:17","slug":"brendan-allen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/2021\/11\/17\/brendan-allen\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendan Allen"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 24pt\">Brendan Allen<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/files\/2021\/11\/Picture1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1435 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/files\/2021\/11\/Picture1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/files\/2021\/11\/Picture1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/files\/2021\/11\/Picture1.jpg 562w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">Brendan Allen is a recent graduate of Temple University&#8217;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 <em>The Happenings Series<\/em>. While at Temple, Brendan&#8217;s creative projects included <a href=\"https:\/\/bibliomancer.itch.io\/centoquest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CentoQuest<\/a>, a choose-your-own-adventure, poem-generating video game, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.philadelphiaparksystem.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Philadelphia Park System<\/a>, 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 <em>DIAGRAM<\/em>, <em>Prolit<\/em>, <em>BAG<\/em>, <em>Landlocked<\/em>, and <em>Voicemail Poems<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\"><strong>Contact:<\/strong> @allen.brendan on Instagram<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\"><strong>Program\/Graduation:<\/strong> MFA Poetry, 2021<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\"><strong>Featured Work:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thediagram.com\/21_1\/allen.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Crosscut&#8221;<\/a> in DIAGRAM 21.1<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prolitmag.com\/issue-three\/allen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">excerpt from The Corridors<\/a> in Prolit Magazine<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\"><a href=\"https:\/\/voicemailpoems.org\/2020\/04\/29\/terra-rima-after-jack-collom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Terra Rima (After Jack Collom)&#8221;<\/a> in Voicemail Poems<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC-Jf_UHPSE7Z1FQGZqrXV3w\/featured\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Philadelphia Park System Walking Tours<\/a> on YouTube<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">To be featured, contact Jenna Sterling at TempleGEA@gmail.com or <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/grad-student-spotlights\/\">click here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brendan Allen Brendan Allen is a recent graduate of Temple University&#8217;s MFA in poetry. Originally from Kansas, Brendan also holds an MA in Poetry and Poetics from the University of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/2021\/11\/17\/brendan-allen\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brendan Allen<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22822,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geaspotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22822"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}