Angela Allen

A longtime Portland, Ore., journalist and reviewer by day, poet by night, and photographer when the light is good, I write and shoot pictures with sharpness and candor, keeping the colors in mind.

Teaching

I teach school children, college-bound students and adults about the arts of writing and photography — and the art of discovering them. I’ve worked with Wordstock Writers, Literary Arts Writers in the Schools, and Right Brain initiative, based in Portland, and taught throughout rural schools in eastern Oregon as the Fishtrap Writer-in-Residence.

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Kind Words for the Writer!

“Ms. Allen helps me correct my essays and gives me great structure. She also improves my vocabulary tremendously through great exercises. She helps me expand my overall writing brain by doing fun creative writing exercises.” Shiva, 8th grade, Portland, Ore.

Note: Shiva entered the University of Pennsylvania as a freshman in Fall 2017. He was accepted by early admission to the Ivy League school in 2016.

Latest News, Events & Clips

Man of many octaves

See Angela’s story on Davóne Tines.
Photo by Tom Emerson

Osvaldo Golijov, chamber music master

This composer is in Oregon wine county. See Angela’s story.

Chamber music, mighty wines

The Willamette Valley Chamber Music Festival returns for the sixth summer in Oregon wine country.

CMNW leaders Soovin Kim and Gloria Chien.

Chamber Festival NW, alive and live

Check out Angela’s highlight story of Portland’s four-week festival.

`Vesper Flight’ takes off

See Angela’s story about Portland composer Kenji Bunch’s newest premiere.

Lee leads a magical `Appalachian Spring’

See Angela's Oregon Arts Watch story about the Chamber Music Northwest performance.

Catalina Cuervo as Frida and Bernardo Bermudez as Rivera.

‘Frida’ proves hot as the weather

See Angela’s review of the 95-minute piece about the unconventional Mexican artist.
Photo by Trace Downen.

Catalina Cuervo as Frida and Bernardo Bermudez as Diego Rivera in Anchorage Opera’s ‘Frida’.

Bold new season

Portland Opera has new leadership and a gutsy season ahead. Read Angela’s story. Photo by Kathleen Behnke, courtesy of Anchorage Opera.

Photo credit. Portland Opera

Portland Opera’s `Journeys”

Six short pieces about the Black experience prove compelling. See Angela’s review.

1,000 Words

Kentucky’s Handmade Stone Walls

Miles of tidy hand-laid stone walls, or “fences," spread their beauty over central Kentucky. This one borders Shaker Village at Pleasant Hill, about 45 minutes from Lexington, Ky. Parts of the walls are almost 200 years old, and they need regular repair. No mortar bonds the rocks.