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Warren Tallman (17 November 1921 – 1 July 1994) was an United States-born poetry professor who influenced the Vancouver TISH poets.
In 1956, Tallman and his wife accepted teaching jobs in the English studies department at the University of British Columbia, helped Earle Birney and Roy Daniells to organize the creative writing department. In 1963, they hosted a poetry conference attended by Denise Levertov, Charles Olson, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan, Margaret Avison, Robert Creeley, and Philip Whalen. Description of the Vancouver 1963 Poetry Conference ; www.slought.org The Tallman home itself also served as a poetry enclave of sorts. It was in the Tallman home that Jack Spicer gave some of his lectures.See Peter Gizzi Two years later, they held another poetry conference in Berkeley, California.
Tallman was sometimes criticized for turning the Vancouver poetry circle into a California branch plant. Tallman embraced the Black Mountain school approach to poetry, but also showed the influence of the Beat generation, the New American Poets and the Language poetry. Among the Canadian poets he is said to have influenced are George Bowering, Lionel Kearns, Frank Davey, Jamie Reid, Fred Wah, Bill Bissett, Stan Persky and Howard White.
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