Contingencies by Allan Johnston

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Contingencies

by Allan Johnston

$14.49, paper

Allan Johnston, originally from Southern California, earned his M.A. in Creative Writing and his Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Davis. His poems have appeared in over sixty journals, includingPoetry, Poetry East, Rattle,and Rhino.  He is the author of one full-length poetry collection (Tasks of Survival, 1996) and three chapbooks (Northport, 2010; Departures, 2013; Contingencies, forthcoming). He has received an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize nomination (2009), and First Prize in Poetry in the Outrider Press Literary Anthology competition (2010).  Originally from California, he now teaches writing and literature at Columbia College and DePaul University in Chicago.  He serves as a reader for Word River and for the Illinois Emerging Poets competition, and is an editor for the Journal for the Philosophical Study of Educationand the SPSE Roundtable. His scholarly articles have appeared in Twentieth Century Literature, College Literature, and several other journals.