Dorianne Laux (born January 10, 1952, in Augusta, Maine) is an American poet.
Biography
Laux worked as a sanatorium cook, a gas station manager, and a maid before receiving a B.A. in English from Mills College in 1988.[1]
Laux taught at the University of Oregon. She is a professor at North Carolina State University’s creative writing program, and the MFA in Writing Program at Pacific University.[2] She is also a contributing editor at The Alaska Quarterly Review.
Her work appeared in American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Ms., Orion,[3] Ploughshares, and Zyzzyva.[4]
Laux lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with her husband, poet Joseph Millar.[2] She has one daughter.[5]
Awards
- Pulitzer Prize finalist for Only As the Day is Long: New and Selected Poems
- The Paterson Prize for The Book of Men
- The Roanoke-Chowan Award for The Book of Men
- Pushcart Prize
- Two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts[6]
- The Best American Poetry 1999
- The Best American Poetry 2006
- The Best American Poetry 2013
- The Best American Poetry 2017
- Guggenheim Fellowship[7]
- Oregon Book Award for Facts about the Moon, selected by Ai[1]
- 2006 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize shortlisted for Facts about the Moon
- National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for What We Carry
Works
- Awake. introduced by Philip Levine. BOA Editions. 1990. ISBN 978-0-918526-76-2.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) re-issued by Eastern Washington University Press - What We Carry. BOA Editions. 1994. ISBN 978-1-880238-07-3.
- Smoke. BOA Editions. 2000. ISBN 978-1-880238-86-8.
- Facts about the Moon. W. W. Norton & Company. 2005. ISBN 978-0-393-32962-9.
- Superman: The Chapbook Red Dragonfly Press January 2008[1]
- Dark Charms Red Dragonfly Press 2010
- The Book of Men: Poems. W. W. Norton. 28 February 2011. ISBN 978-0-393-07955-5.
- The Book of Women, Red Dragonfly Press 2012 ISBN 9781937693046
- Ce que nous portons, Translation of What We Carry by Hélène Cardona, Editions du Cygne 2014 ISBN 978-2-84924-377-0[8][9]
- Only As the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems, W. W. Norton 2019 ISBN 978-0393652338[10]
Anthologies
- Best of The American Poetry Review
- The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry
- four citations in Best American Poetry.
Performance
- The Poetry Brothel The Poetry Society of New York
As editor
- Kim Addonizio; Dorianne Laux (1997). The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry. W.W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-31654-4.
Dorianne Laux.
References
- ^ a b c "Dorianne Laux". Poets.org. The Academy of American Poets. Retrieved February 5, 2013.
- ^ a b "Core Faculty". Pacific University. Retrieved February 5, 2013.
- ^ "Orion Magazine - Night". Orion Magazine. Retrieved 2023-04-02.
- ^ "Dorianne Laux". Directory of Writers. Poets & Writers. Retrieved February 5, 2013.
- ^ "Dorianne Laux". Web Del Sol. Retrieved February 5, 2013.
- ^ "Dorianne Laux". Writers' Corner. National Endowment for the Arts. Archived from the original on February 2, 2013. Retrieved February 5, 2013.
- ^ "Dorianne Laux". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2023-04-02.
- ^ "Reviewed by Vincent Motard-Avargues in La Cause Littéraire".
- ^ "Interviewed by Hélène Cardona in Plume".
- ^ "Reviewed by Andrew Jarvis in New York Journal of Books".
- "Facts about the Poet" (PDF). Literary Reference. Winter 2006. Retrieved 8 January 2012.
External links
- Official website
- Guide to the Dorianne Louise Laux Papers 1968-2019
- Dorianne Laux's poem "Home Movies" in Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts (23.1).
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Gave a review to poet Jessica Cuello's book "Liar."