Arts and Sciences is, a unique poetry collection in that all the poems in it deal with figures, works, or events in literature, music, painting, film, or the sciences. Its poems cover a wide range, from Hamlet and Emily Dickinson to Sinatra and Bessie Smith, from Edward Hopper and Invasion of the Body Snatchers to gene therapy and quantum entanglement.

Allen Stein's poems have been published in over thirty journals, among them The Hudson Review, Poet Lore, Willow Springs, Salmagundi, New Ohio Review, Southern Poetry Review, and Valparaiso Poetry Review. He has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His first poetry collection, Your Funeral is Very Important to Us, was a Semi-Finalist in the University of Wisconsin Poetry Series' Brittingham and Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry competition and was published in 2019 by Main Street Rag. His second collection, Unsettled Subjects:New Poems on Classic American Literature, was published in 2020 by Broadstone.