Stephen Dunn
Stephen Dunn is an American poet and educator. Dunn has written fifteen collections of poetry. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 2001 collection, Different Hours and has received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Among his other awards are three National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships, Guggenheim Fellowship, and Rockefeller Foundations Fellowship. A collection of essays about Dunn's poetry was published in 2013.
Life
He was born in Forest Hills, Queens, New York.Dunn completed his B.A. in English at Hofstra University and his M.A. in creative writing at Syracuse University. He has taught at Wichita State University, University of Washington, Columbia University, University of Michigan, Princeton University, and at Stockton University.
Dunn had earlier 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.
Poetry
;Collections- Full of Lust and Good Usage, Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1976.
- A Circus of Needs, Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1978.
- Work and Love, Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1981.
- Not Dancing, Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1984.
- Local Time, Quill/Morrow, 1986.
- Between Angels: Poems, W. W. Norton & Company, 1989.
- Landscape at the End of the Century: Poems, W. W. Norton & Company, 1991.
- New and Selected Poems: 1974-1994, W. W. Norton & Company, 1994.
- Loosestrife: Poems, W. W. Norton & Companyn, 1996.
- Riffs & Reciprocities: Prose Pairs, W. W. Norton & Company, 1998.
- , W. W. Norton & Company, 2000.
- The Insistence of Beauty: Poems, W. W. Norton & Company, 2004.
- Local Visitations: Poems, Norton, 2004,
- Everything Else in the World, W. W. Norton & Company, 2006.
- What Goes On: Selected and New Poems 1995-2009, W. W. Norton, 2009.
- , W. W. Norton & Company, 2011.
- Lines of Defense, W. W. Norton & Company, 2014.
- Whereas: Poems, W. W. Norton & Company, 2017.
Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected |
Ambush at five o'clock | 2014 | ||
Whereas the animal I cannot help but be | 2015 |
Non fiction
- , BOA Editions, Ltd., 2001.