Allen Hoey

Quick Facts

Full Name	Allen Hoey
Occupation	Poet
Date Of Birth	Oct 21, 1952(1952-10-21)
Age	72
Date Of Death	2010-06-16
Country	United States
Birth City	New York
Horoscope	Libra

Allen Hoey Biography

Allen Hoey is one of the most popular and richest Poet who was born on October 21, 1952 in New York, United States. Poet’s 1987 poetry collection, A Fire in the Cold House of Being received the Camden Poetry Award. For his 2008 collection, Country Music, he was nominated to the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

Hoey was a prolific writer in his later years. He wrote many detective novels in the hardboiled style of In his later years, Hoey wrote several detective novels in the hard-boiled style of Raymond Chandler..

During the 1980s, Hoey worked as publisher, editor, and printer for Tamarack Editions, a small press that specialized in fine, handset limited editions. Among the works published by Tamarack were Hayden Carruth’s The Mythology of Dark and Light and Mother, as well as Kochan by Jack Gilbert.

Hoey has written five full-length collections of poetry and three novels. His first collection, A Fire in the Cold House of Being, was selected by Galway Kinnell as winner of the 1985 Camden Poetry Award. This book was published in 1987 and was followed by What Persists in 1992 and two collections in 2005, Provençal Light and The Precincts of Paradise. In 2006 he published a novel, Chasing the Dragon. He received a Pennsylvania Council of the Arts literature fellowship, placing his poetry and criticism in many prominent literary journals, including The American Poetry Review, The Hudson Review, Poetry, and The Southern Review. His poem “A Thousand Prostrations” was included in Essential Zen, and another poem, “Essay on Snow,” was included in The Best American Spiritual Writing of 2004. Hoey’s second novel, Voices Beyond the Dead, a more politically oriented book, was released in the summer of 2007, and his fifth collection of poems, Country Music, was published in spring 2008.

Two sons were born to his first marriage: Owen and Stephen.

Allen Hoey Net Worth

Allen Hoey is one of the richest Poet from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Allen Hoey 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He studied under poet He studied under poet Hayden Carruth at Syracuse University. He later taught at Ithaca College. at Syracuse University. Later, he taught at Ithaca College.

He was editor and publisher of Tamarack Editions for a while.

Allen Hoey (October 21, 1952 – June 16, 2010) was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic who received numerous honors during his lifetime, including a Pulitzer Prize nomination for his 2008 collection of poems Country Music.

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Allen Ranked on the list of most popular Poet. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Allen Hoey celebrates birthday on October 21 of every year.