Ron Allen was an inspired be-bop surrealist poetic, musical and theatrical force. For many years a one-man avant-guard in Detroit, Ron came to LA in 2006 to direct LA Poverty Department’s “Fried Poetry” project. Subsequently he moved to LA and worked with Los Angeles Poverty Department, Dramastage Qumran, Theater of Note, and his jazz/poetry ensemble Code Zero before he passed away in 2010.
The Ron Allen Poetry Prize is sponsored by the Los Angeles Poverty Department and Dramastage Qumran in honor of Ron Allen’s creative powers.
The Robert F. Kennedy Performance Project, is a series of public conversations and activities centered around the real-time, site-specific intermedia performance that recreated, on September 9th and 10th 2004, Robert Kennedy’s two-day, 200 mile “poverty tour” of southeastern Kentucky in 1968. An Appalshop project directed by John Malpede.
Visit the Robert F. Kennedy Performance Project web site.© 2024 lapovertydept.org. Los Angeles Poverty Department
