Quick quiz to ascertain how well YOU, as a citizen of Nutmeg Nation, know your state poet laureate: Dick Allen.

1. In addition to seven volumes of poetry, Allen's work has been published in:

a. The New Yorker

b. The Atlantic Monthly

c. The New Republic

d. All of the Above

2. True of false: among Allen's honors are the Robert Frost Prize, the Hart Crane Prize, the Push Cart Prize and a finalist designatee for a National Book Critics Circle Award.

(Answers: 1 - d; 2 - True.)

Sort of makes you want to go see the mellifluous Allen Friday when he headlines in the second event of the 19th season at the Arts Cafe - Mystic. In support, the guitar duo of Handler & Levesque provide music and, as always, the program takes place in the Mystic Arts Center.

- RICK KOSTER

Dick Allen ,

with Handler & Levesque

Arts Cafe - Mystic, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Mystic Arts Cafe, 9 Water St., Mystic; $8 adults

and seniors, students free; (860) 912-2444

or email allynsally@sbcglobal.net.