Allen Cohen (1940 – April 29, 2004) was an
American
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poet
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. Born in 1940 in
Brooklyn, New York
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, he attended
Brooklyn College
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Being New York City's first publ ...
and then moved to
San Francisco
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in 1963. There, he founded and edited the ''
San Francisco Oracle
''The Oracle of the City of San Francisco'', also known as the ''San Francisco Oracle,'' was an underground newspaper published in 12 issues from September 20, 1966, to February 1968 in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of that city. Allen Cohen (p ...
''
underground newspaper, which was published from 1966 to 1968. After the September 11 attacks, he edited a newspaper entitled ''Peace News'', and in 2002 co-edited a poetry anthology entitled ''An Eye for an Eye Makes the Whole World Blind: Poets on 9/11''. Cohen died of
liver cancer
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and
hepatitis C
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on April 29, 2004 in
Walnut Creek, California.
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Allen Cohen
American male poets
Jewish American poets
American newspaper editors
Writers from San Francisco
Writers from Brooklyn
Deaths from liver cancer
Deaths from hepatitis
1940 births
2004 deaths
20th-century American poets
20th-century American male writers
20th-century American non-fiction writers
American male non-fiction writers
Brooklyn College alumni
20th-century American Jews
21st-century American Jews
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