Dee Allen

African-Italian performance poet based in Oakland, California. Active on creative writing & the Spoken Word scene since the early 1990s. Author of 6 books: Boneyard, Unwritten Law, Stormwater and Skeletal Black,all from POOR Press, Elohi Unitsi from Conviction 2 Change Publishing and Rusty Gallows: Passages Against Hate (Vagabond Books, 2022) and 40 anthology appearances including 2020: The Year That Changed America, Geography Is Irrelevant from York, England's Stairwell Books, Five Words: Volume XIV from West Cork, Ireland's O'Bheal, I Can't Breathe from Kenya-based Kistrech Theatre International and Law And Poetry from the American Bar Association under his figurative belt so far. Plans is his 7th book.