D. Nurkse

Dennis Nurkse is a poet from Brooklyn.

Life
Nurkse was born in Brooklyn, New York City, the son of Estonian refugees who had fled Naziism in Eastern Europe. His father is the eminent economist Ragnar Nurkse.

D. Nurkse has taught workshops at Rikers Island, and his poems about prison life appeared in The American Poetry Review, Evergreen Review, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, TriQuarterly, The Kenyon Review, and other magazines. He has taught at The New School University and Columbia University, and is currently on the faculty at Sarah Lawrence College.

He has translated anonymous medieval and flamenco Spanish lyric poems and has written about the Spanish pastoral poems by contemporary Giannina Braschi. His work has appeared in The Evergreen Review, The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, The Times Literary Supplement, Ploughshares, The Paris Review.

Recognition
Nurkse has been named Poet laureate of Brooklyn.

Awards

 * 2007 Guggenheim Fellow
 * 1990 Whiting Writers' Award
 * NEA fellowship
 * NYFA fellowships

Poetry

 * Staggered Lights. Owl Creek Press, July 1990. ISBN 978-0-937669-42-6
 * Voices Over Water. Graywolf Press, 1993. ISBN 978-1-55597-188-5
 * Leaving Xaia, Four Way Books.
 * The Rules of Paradise, Four Way Books.
 * Burnt Island. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. ISBN 978-1-4000-4350-7
 * The Border Kingdom. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
 * A Night in Brooklyn, Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.

Anthologized

 * Poetry after 9/11: An anthology of New York poets (edited by Dennis Loy Johnson and Valerie Merians). Melville House, 2002. ISBN 978-0-9718659-1-4