“It can feel risky when you decide to make your living from your art,” he says. More dramatically, he found a way to make a living from poetry, an income strategy that took some initial courage. “As a performance poet, I can combine my interests in literature, theatre, and teaching,” he says. Now Wolf presents poetry in witty, exuberant, and even gleeful ways to audiences ranging from preschoolers to adult inmates, from Shreveport to Shanghai. He also helped the poetry slam movement take root in the South by founding the Southern Fried Poetry Slam, which is thriving nearly a quarter century later. In the early 1990s, after earning his master’s degree in the Department of English and teaching at Virginia Tech for three years, Wolf joined Poetry Alive!, a traveling troupe of poets and actors who performed poetry in schools across the United States. “You might see a plain candlestick, a pomegranate, and some plums,” he says, “but you’ll also notice something astonishing about the light and how the shadows are cast.” Wolf likens the poet’s vision to a still life in the hands of a gifted painter. Imagination and creativity are the keys to innovation, whether you’re a poet, a scientist, or an athlete.” “You use your imagination to translate the world from ordinary to extraordinary. “When you look through a poet’s eyes, you see the possibilities that other people miss,” he says. Allan Wolf views the world through a poet’s eyes - and he travels nationally and even internationally to share that vision.
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