Comments on: Jed Allen

By: jills

jills — Tue, 02 Aug 2016 14:32:44 +0000

It was a great pleasure to be in Jed’s poetry class. A friend of mine and I saw him perform a commissioned poem once about an art piece in Scottsdale. The art was good, and his poem was almost as good, and to my mind his poem was head and shoulders above all the other art-inspired poems we heard that night. He performed it well, he had an excellent deep voice. Afterwards, he was still apprehensive about it. That vulnerability was probably why he was such a good poet. I’m glad to have had him for a teacher.

By: jhfenimore

jhfenimore — Thu, 26 May 2016 14:43:59 +0000

Jed and I were neighbors and close friends during the last few years of high school in Albany NY. We lost contact after leaving for college,

I’m not the least bit surprised his life turned out as it did, with his focus on the arts. He was always a free spirit, who had the wisdom to never measure success or happiness by the size of a bank account. If he was the same person as an adult that he was in high school, I have no doubt he enjoyed his life, his family, and his friends. That’s what matters most.

It was a pleasure to have known him.

Jack Fenimore

By: creayonfarm

creayonfarm — Wed, 18 May 2016 04:57:50 +0000

Been missin’ the blues at Amano’s and sitting in the booth so close to the group, that we were practically part of the ensemble. Jed loved it so when the audience was in sinc and appreciating his music.

By: jgaspar

jgaspar — Fri, 13 May 2016 18:12:19 +0000

Thanks for sharing this. It’s a great song, isn’t it?

By: dklecka

dklecka — Thu, 12 May 2016 18:44:56 +0000

I remember being brand new to PC and Jed sent out an email calling us to gather. He played “Blues at Amano’s” on Baseline.
Once, I went and saw him perform.

It’s rare that we get to see our colleagues in such soulful glow.