David Parker Allen

Projects

Whaling Town (October 2025)

Whaling Town is an American tale of place, people and self-discovery in a gritty world both in and out of our control.

The title poem, Whaling Town, is an immigrant story both fading and urgent set in New Bedford, MA, the American whaling town Melville made famous and once known as, “The City that Lit the World”.

The additional prose poems take place in small towns across the Mississippi Delta, South, Gulf Coast, Mountain West and in the streets of Chicago and New York.

The free verse collection of poems was written while traveling and researching his upcoming album, Forgotton Wail.

Forgotton Wail

Currently in the recording process, Forgotton Wail includes songs written as components to the poems Song For Charlie Patton, The Delta and Roaring 20's, which appear in Whaling Town.