Stuart Dischell

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Stuart Dischell (born May 29, 1954 in Atlantic City, New Jersey) is an American poet and Professor in English Creative Writing in the Master of Fine Arts Program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

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Career

Stuart Dischell studied Literature at Antioch College and received his Master of Fine Arts degree at the Writers workshop of the University of Iowa, where he studied poetry with Donald Justice, Stanley Plumly and Jon Anderson. After graduating Iowa, he moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts and taught at Boston University. Since 1992, he has taught Creative Writing in the Master of Fine Arts Program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He also taught in the Sarah Lawrence Summer Literary Seminars and in the Low Residency MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.

Publications

Stuart Dischell has also been published in anthologies like Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud, [9] Hammer and Blaze: A Gathering of Contemporary American Poets [10] The Pushcart prize, XIX, 1994-1995: best of the small presses, [11] and Good Poems [12] and in various media such as The Atlantic, New Republic, Agni, From the Fishouse, Ploughshares, Slate, The Kenyon Review and the Alaska Quarterly Review. [13]

Awards and honors

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References

  1. ↑ Stuart Dischell (1993). Good Hope Road. New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Viking. ISBN   978-0670848225.
  2. ↑ Stuart Dischell (1996). Evenings & Avenues. New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Penguin Books. ISBN   978-0140587661.
  3. ↑ Stuart Dischell (2003). Dig safe. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN   978-0142002681.
  4. ↑ Stuart Dischell (2007). Backwards days. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN   978-0143112556.
  5. ↑ Stuart Dischell (2012). Touch Monkey. Ohio, O.H., U.S.A.: Forklift Ink.
  6. ↑ Stuart Dischell (2016). Standing on Z. Greensboro, N.C., U.S.A.: Unicorn Press. ISBN   978-0-87775-804-4.
  7. ↑ Stuart Dischell (2017). Children with Enemies. Chicago, I.L., U.S.A.: University Of Chicago Press. ISBN   978-0226498591.
  8. ↑ Stuart Dischell (2022). The lookout man. Chicago, I.L., U.S.A.: University Of Chicago Press. ISBN   978-0226817835.
  9. ↑ Robert Pinsky (2009). Essential pleasures : a new anthology of poems to read aloud (1st ed.). New York: W.W. Norton & Co. ISBN   978-0393066081.
  10. ↑ Ellen Bryant Voigt & Heather McHugh (2002). Hammer and blaze : a gathering of contemporary American poets . Athens: University of Georgia Press. ISBN   978-0820324166.
  11. ↑ Bill Henderson, Lynn Emanuel, David St. John & Anthony Brandt (1995). The Pushcart Prize XIX: Best of the Small Presses (1994 - 1995) . Wainscott: Pushcart. ISBN   978-0916366988.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  12. ↑ Garrison Keillor (2003). Good poems. New York, N.Y.: Penguin. ISBN   978-0142003442.
  13. ↑ "Stuart Dischell". NEA. 2018-05-30. Retrieved 2018-10-19.
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