 Gilbert Allen was born in Rockville Centre, New York, and grew up on the south shore of Long Island. He received his B.A., M.F.A., and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell University. Since 1977 he has lived in Travelers Rest, South Carolina, with his wife, Barbara. He teaches at Furman University. His four collections of poems are In Everything (Lotus, 1982), Second Chances (Orchises, 1991), Commandments at Eleven (Orchises, 1994), and Driving to Distraction (Orchises, 2003). His poems and short stories, which have won many awards, have appeared in such publications as The American Scholar, College English, Cumberland Poetry Review, Epoch, The Georgia Review, Shenandoah, The Southern Review, and The Tampa Review. Gilbert Allen is a frequent lecturer in three programs in South Carolina's public libraries: Let's Talk About It, Voices and Visions, and Poets in Person.
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Phone: 864-294-3152 E-mail: gil.allen@furman.edu |
William Rogers was born in Greenville, South Carolina. His degrees are from Yale University (B.A.) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Ph.D.). He is the Bennette E. Geer Professor of Literature at Furman University, where he has taught since 1974. His scholarly interests include lyric poetry, medieval English literature, and literary theory. He is the author of books on Middle English religious lyric, genre theory, Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, theory of interpretation, and William Langland's Piers Plowman. William Rogers is the author also of four books of poetry, all privately printed: The Ball of the World, the Ball of the Eye (1986); Beacon Station and Other Poems (1988); Airish Beasts (1996); Fractal Geometries (2001). He lives in Travelers Rest, South Carolina, with his wife Cindy. They have two sons, Baxter and Freeman.
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Phone: 864-294-3156 E-mail: bill.rogers@furman.edu |
