Joe Allen, Jr. is a native New Yorker. A hip-hop artist from an early age, he nevertheless began attending a poetry outreach workshop in the early part of this new century. He credits Ken Siegelman, Brooklyn’s Poet Laureate (2002 – 2009), as a primary mentor in the phase of his development as a writer that produced the greater portion of this collection.
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