Stephen Dunn at 2012 National Book Festival. Photo by Slowking. Licensed under Creative Commons, courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
Stephen Dunn (born 1939) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet.
Life[]
Dunn was born in New York City. He earned a B.A. in English at Hofstra University and an M.A. in creative writing at Syracuse University.
Stephen Dunn - Poets in Person - Episode 2
He has taught at Wichita State University, University of Washington, Columbia University, University of Michigan, Princeton University, and at the Richard Stockton College|Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.
Dunn has lived in Port Republic, New Jersey, and now spends time at homes in Ocean City, New Jersey, and his wife's hometown of Frostburg, Maryland.[1]
Recognition[]
Dunn won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for his 2001 collection, Different Hours. He has also received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.[2]
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Five Impersonations. Marshall, MN: Ox Head Press, 1971.
- Looking for Holes in the Ceiling, Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1974.
- Full of Lust and Good Usage. Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1976.
- A Circus of Needs. Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1978.
- Work and Love. Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1981.
- Not Dancing. Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1984.
- Local Time. New York: Quill/Morrow, 1986.
- Between Angels. New York: Norton, 1989.
- Landscape at the End of the Century. New York: Norton, 1991.
- New and Selected Poems, 1974-1994. New York: Norton, 1994.
- Loosestrife. New York: Norton, 1996.
- Different Hours. New York: Norton, 2000.
- Everything Else in the World. Norton, 2006.
- What Goes On: Selected and New Poems 1995-2009. New York: Norton, 2009.
- Here and Now: Poems. New York: Norton, 2011.
Non-fiction[]
- Walking Light: Essays and memoirs. New York: Norton, 1993
- revised, Rochester, NY: BOA Editions, 2001.
- Foreword to Juanita Tobin, Ransom Street Quartet: Poems and stories. Boone, NC: Parkway, 1995.
- Riffs & Reciprocities: Prose pairs. . New York: Norton, 1998.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy the Poetry Foundation.[3]
Audio / video[]
"The Imagined," a poem by Stephen Dunn, adapted for Motionpoems by Matt Craig
- Stephen Dunn Reading (CD). Aspen, CO: Aspen Writers' Conference, 1977.
- Stephen Dunn (tape). Kansas City, MO: New Letters, 1980.
- Stephen Dunn: Different hours (MP3). Philadelphia, PA: Free Library of Philadelphia, 2002.
Except where noted, discographical information courtesy WorldCat.[4]
See also[]
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References[]
- ↑ Strauss, Robert. "Ode to Joi(sey)", The New York Times, April 27, 2003. Accessed October 9, 2007. "Mr. Dunn, who used to live in Port Republic, a remote town in the interior of South Jersey, now divides his time between Ocean City and his wife's hometown, Frostburg, Md."
- ↑ Author interview http://common-line.com/2009/09/commonline-interview-pulitzer-prize.html
- ↑ Stephen Dunn b. 1939, Poetry Foundation, Web, Sep. 8, 2012.
- ↑ Search results = au:Stephen Dunn + audiobook, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Sep. 20, 2015.
External links[]
- Poems
- Stephen Dunn profile & 5 poems at the Academy of American Poets.
- Stephen Dunn b. 1939 at the Poetry Foundation.
- Audio / video
- Audio: Stephen Dunn reads "Talk to God" from the book What Goes On, at Poems Out Loud.
- Stephen Dunn at YouTube
- "Life's Minutiae Gain New Magnitude In Dunn's 'Lines' Of Poetry," NPR interview
- Books
- Stephen Dunn at Amazon.com
- About
- Article on Dunn winning the 2001 Pulitzer Prize
- Stephen Dunn Official website.
- Interview with Stephen Dunn for The Cortland Review.
- Author Interview for CommonLine.
- Author interview for Guernica Magazine (Guernicamag.com)
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