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Matrix’s tribute to Robert Allen

Cover of Matrix magazineMatrix magazine’s newest issue features a 30-page tribute to poet and professor Robert Allen, who died last November from brain cancer. Allen was the editor of Matrix for a decade, working out of his office in Concordia University’s creative writing department.

Matrix’s tribute features prose, poetry, and photography from Golda Fried, David Solway, Anne Stone, Conundrum Press’s Andy Brown (who is also Matrix’s art director), current editor Jon Paul Fiorentino, and more. It also features previously unpublished poetry by Allen.

Click here to read Q&Q’s story on Allen’s passing. (OMNI subscription req’d.)

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One Response to “Matrix’s tribute to Robert Allen”

  1. norah hegan says:

    salutations,

    Rob was actually battling melanoma.

    thank you.

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