Allen Braden

Allen Braden is an American poet.

Braden graduated from McNeese State University with an MFA, where he studied with the poet John Wood.

His work is published in The New Republic, Prairie Schooner, Virginia Quarterly Review, Shenandoah, Southern Review, and Georgia Review.

He was poet-in-residence for the Poetry Center and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

He teaches at Tacoma Community College.

• National Endowment for the Arts fellowship
• 2006 Artist Trust / Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship
• Emerging Writers Prize from Witness magazine
• Grolier Poetry Prize

• "Down the Silo", Umbrella, Fall 2007
• "BOTH PORTRAITS"; "YOUR LIFE AS FOUND IN A TOOLBOX", In Posse Review, Winter 2006
• A Wreath of Down and Drops of Blood. University of Georgia Press. 2009. ISBN 978-0-8203-3474-5.
• The field burner. McNeese State University. 1997.

Anthologies

• Best New Poets 2005
• Spreading the Word: Editors on Poetry
• Family Matters: Poems of Our Families. Bottom Dog Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0-933087-95-8.
• David Lee Garrison; Terry Hermsen, eds. (2003). O taste and see: food poems. Bottom Dog Press. ISBN 978-0-933087-82-8.