David Dalton Yezzi (born 1966) is an American poet, editor, actor, [1] and professor. He currently teaches poetry in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.
David Dalton Yezzi (born 1966) is an American poet, editor, actor, [1] and professor. He currently teaches poetry in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.
Yezzi was born in Albany, New York [2] He attended The Doane Stuart School. [3] [4] [5] Yezzi earned a bachelor's degree in theater from Carnegie Mellon University and a master of fine arts degree in creative writing from Columbia University School of the Arts. [6]
Yezzi was Director of the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y in New York City from 2001 to 2005 and has worked as executive editor and, then, poetry editor of The New Criterion , associate editor of Parnassus: Poetry in Review , and was on the staff of The New York Observer . [6] He is a professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and a former editor of The Hopkins Review.
Yezzi was a co-founder of the San Francisco theater company, Thick Description, and has performed in works by Shakespeare, Shaw, Brecht, Goethe, Williams, and others in the United States and Europe. [6] In March 2010, Verse Theater Manhattan presented Yezzi's evening of verse monologues, Dirty Dan & Other Travesties, at the Bowery Poetry Club, with Yezzi performing "Tomorrow & Tomorrow." In October 2021, he performed the title role in The Baltimore Shakespeare Factory's production of King Lear . [7] He is a 2024-2026 member of the acting company at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company.
In 1998, he was awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University (1998–2000). [6]
His poems have been published in literary journals including The Atlantic , Poetry , The Yale Review , The Paris Review , The New Republic , Poetry Daily and The New Criterion . His literary essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review , The New York Sun , The New Yorker , The Wall Street Journal , The (London) Times Literary Supplement , Poetry and elsewhere. [6]
Yezzi's poem "The Call" was included in The Best American Poetry 2006 and "Minding Rites" appeared in The Best American Poetry 2012 .
In December 2008, Azores was chosen as a Slate magazine "Best Book of 2008." In 2015, Birds of the Air was a finalist for the Poets' Prize. Late Romance was an editors' selection at The New York Times Book Review in 2023. He is a 2024 James Merrill House Fellow.
| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected |
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| Sugar on snow | 2019 | Yezzi, David (July 2019). "Sugar on snow". The Atlantic. 324 (1): 38. | |
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