- Dennis Schmitz
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Dennis Schmitz (born August 11, 1937 Dubuque, Iowa) is an American poet.
Contents
Life
He grew up in Dubuque, Iowa.[1] He graduated from Loras College and the University of Chicago. He married Loretta D'Agostino in 1960. He taught at Illinois Institute of Technology, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee[2] and California State University, Sacramento.[3] His students include Raymond Carver,[4] Charlene Ungstad and[5] Gary Short.[6]
He opposes the death penalty and protests executions in California every time they take place.[7][8]
His work has appeared in the Alaska Quarterly Review,[9] American Poetry Review, The Nation, Paris Review,[10] the Chicago Review[11] and Zyzzyva.[12]
He lives in Sacramento.[13]
Awards
- poet laureate of Sacramento, California[8]
- 1978 Guggenheim Fellow [14]
- 1976-1977, 1985–1986, 1992-1993 Fellow National Endowment for the Arts
- 1987-1988 Shelley Memorial Award[15]
Works
Poetry
- The Truth Squad (Copper Canyon Press, 2002)
- About Night (Field Editions, 1993)
- Eden (University of Illinois Press, 1989)
- Singing (Ecco Press, 1985)
- String (Ecco Press, 1980)
- Goodwill, Inc 1976
- Double Exposures 1971
- We Weep for Our Strangeness, 1969
Editor
- Dennis Schmitz, ed. The Sacramento Anthology of 100 Poems. Sacramento’s Poet Laureate Program; Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission.
Review
Schmitz is the kind of poet whose work is unknown to the general public but eagerly read by other writers in top literary magazines like Field or Antaeus. In this volume, he continues the exciting work he has already done with dramatic monologues and religious meditations set on California farms or in the construction sites, flophouses, and movie palaces of Chicago.[16]
References
- ^ SANDYE VOIGHT (September 18, 2003). "Poet making trek back to his Dubuque roots; Schmitz will give a reading tonight at the Carnegie-Stout Library". Dubuque Telegraph - Herald. http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-11103453.html.
- ^ Europa Publications, ed (2003). International Who's Who in Poetry 2004. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781857431780. http://books.google.com/?id=xTG2qvxxYNsC&pg=PA290&lpg=PA290&dq=Dennis+Schmitz+poet+dubuque.
- ^ http://www.csus.edu/pubaf/journal/fall2002/34facultyauthors.htm
- ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=y0uhb9ERrjsC&pg=PA180&lpg=PA180&dq=Dennis+Schmitz+poet&source=bl&ots=gN4W4oWLHv&sig=pY5NRf34c9t_ifoFO2goepwIniw&hl=en&ei=dXdLSqnJG5CINPHqlLkC&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3
- ^ http://www.blogtalkradio.com/The-Jane-Crown-Show/blog/2008/12
- ^ http://www.onlinenevada.org/Gary_Short
- ^ http://www.lairdcarlson.com/celldoor/00302/Ains00302WrodsfromDR.htm
- ^ a b http://sacramentopoetrycenter.blogspot.com/2006/03/dennis-schmitz-reading-at-art-foundry.html
- ^ http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/aqr/back-issues/17_1and2.cfm
- ^ http://www.parisreview.com/viewissue.php/prmIID/62
- ^ http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/review/archive1.shtml
- ^ http://www.zyzzyva.org/published.poetry.htm
- ^ http://www.pw.org/content/dennis_schmitz_3
- ^ http://www.gf.org/fellows/all?index=s&page=7
- ^ http://www.poetrysociety.org/previous-awards.html
- ^ "Notes on Current Books, Autumn 1980". Virginia Quarterly Review. Autumn 1980. http://www.vqronline.org/articles/1980/autumn/notes-on-current-books/.
External links
Categories:- Writers from California
- Writers from Iowa
- American poets
- Loras College alumni
- University of Chicago alumni
- Illinois Institute of Technology faculty
- University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee faculty
- California State University, Sacramento faculty
- People from Dubuque, Iowa
- 1937 births
- Living people
- Guggenheim Fellows
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