777 Poems

Creator of the new poetic form, the 777 poem, M. Ray Allen made his debut as a poet at the opening ceremony of The Douglass House Center in Long Beach, California in 1968, where Budd Schulberg, an Academy Award-winning screenwriter, served as the keynote speaker. Allen was inducted as the 80th member of the Morehead State University Alumni Hall of Fame in 1991, for his literary achievements, career as an educator, and community service work with Appalfolks of America Association, a nonprofi...