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Dr. Gilbert Allen |
GREENVILLE, S.C.—Gilbert Allen, professor of English at Furman University, has been awarded The Robert Penn Warren Prize in Poetry from The Southern Review.
The award, established in 2005, is given annually to the best poem or group of poems published in The Southern Review journal during the previous volume year. Allen won for his poem, “The Assistant.” The award includes a $1,500 honorarium.
The Southern Review also awarded The Eudora Welty Prize in Fiction and The Cleanth Brooks Prize in Nonfiction, which are given annually to the best short story and best work of nonfiction, respectively. The journal’s staff nominated their favorites pieces in each genre, and outside judges made the final decisions.
Allen is the author of several collections of poetry, including In Everything, Second Chances, Commandments at Eleven and Driving to Distraction. His poems have appeared in American Scholar, Cortland Review, Crazyhorse, The Georgia Review and Shenandoah, and his poem, “Sonnet $9.95,” was recited by Garrison Keillor on National Public Radio’s “The Writer’s Almanac.”
Allen has been a member of the Furman faculty since 1977. He is a graduate of Cornell University, where he earned the B.A., M.F.A., and Ph.D. degrees.
The Southern Review publishes fiction, poetry, critical essays, interviews, book reviews and excerpts from novels in progress. It is published quarterly at Louisiana State University.
For more information, contact Furman’s News and Media Relations office at 864-294-3107.
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4-21-08
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