About Allen Braden

Allen Braden of Puyallup, Washington, has had poetry recently in Georgia Review, New Republic, North American Review, Shenandoah, Southern Review, and Threepenny Review. His poem “First Elk, 1939” from the Winter 2005 issue was selected for Best New Poets 2005.

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First Elk, 1939

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There's Al Knoll and O. L. Hesner next to the carcass,
my father at eighteen and Uncle Tillman farther off.
Julian Sommers too, out of place in a raccoon coat

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