Dorianne Laux

Dorianne Laux (born January 10, 1952 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.

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. She is also a contributing editor at The Alaska Quarterly Review.

Her work appeared in American Poetry Review, Five Points, Kenyon Review, Ms., Orion, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Southern Review, TriQuarterly, Zyzzyva.

Laux lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with her husband, poet Joseph Millar and has a daughter.^{[citation needed]}

Awards

• Pushcart Prize
• two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts
• The Best American Poetry 1999
• The Best American Poetry 2006
• List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2001
• Oregon Book Award for Facts about the Moon, selected by Ai
• 2006 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize shortlisted for Facts about the Moon
• National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for What We Carry

Works

• "APHASIA"; "GRAVEYARD AT HURD'S GULCH", Web Del Sol
• "GIRL IN THE DOORWAY"; "CROSS COUNTRY"; "SUNDAY"; "WHAT COULD HAPPEN", Web Del Sol
• "ABSCHIEDS SYMPHONY"; "HOW IT WILL HAPPEN, WHEN"; "DEATH COMES TO ME AGAIN, A GIRL", Web Del Sol
• "MUSIC IN THE MORNING"; "PRAYER"; "FIRESTARTER"; "THE SHIPFITTER'S WIFE", Web Del Sol
• "What Would You Give Up?"; "Dump Run"; "Fog"; "Emily Said"; "Mugged By Poetry", Cortland Review, Spring 2009
• "Facts About the Moon", How a Poem Happens, February 2009
• "Roots", Orion, May/June 2008
• "Laundry And Cigarettes"; "On The Back Porch", Reading Between A&B
• "Incident with a Kiwi", Ward 6 Review

• Awake. introduced by Philip Levine. BOA Editions. 1990. ISBN 9780918526762.  re-issued by Eastern Washington University Press
• What We Carry. BOA Editions. 1994. ISBN 9781880238073. 
• Smoke. BOA Editions. 2000. ISBN 9781880238868. http://books.google.com/books?id=iL-hfr6TgeQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:Dorianne+inauthor:Laux&ei=4F3TSrTuFI3SM-3r-IcO#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
• Facts about the Moon. W. W. Norton & Company. 2005. ISBN 9780393329629. 
• Superman: The Chapbook Red Dragonfly Press January 2008
• "Dark Charms" Red Dragonfly Press 2010 http://www.reddragonflypress.org/music/3108
• The Book of Men W.W. Norton February 2011 http://books.wwnorton.com/books/The-Book-of-Men/

Anthologies

• Best of The American Poetry Review
• The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry
• twice in Best American Poetry.

Ploughshares

• "Life Is Beautiful". Ploughshares. Winter 2000. http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=4985. 
• "Oh, The Water". Ploughshares. Winter 2000. http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=4986. 
• "Heart". Ploughshares. Winter 2000. http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=4984. 
• "Family Stories". Ploughshares. Spring 1998. http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=4422. 
• "Trying to Raise the Dead". Ploughshares. Spring 1998. http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=4423. 

Editor

• Kim Addonizio, Dorianne Laux (1997). The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry. W.W. Norton. ISBN 9780393316544. http://books.google.com/books?id=skuaq3033OoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:Dorianne+inauthor:Laux&ei=4F3TSrTuFI3SM-3r-IcO#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 

References

• "Facts about the Poet" (PDF). Literary Reference. Winter 2006. http://pages.uoregon.edu/crwrweb/files/newsletter/winter2006.pdf. Retrieved 8 January 2012. 

External links

• Academy of American Poets Page
• Audio: Dorianne Laux reads Facts About the Moon
• Interview in SmokeLong Quarterly, June 25, 2009
• Nearly Free, Woman in a Bar, short stories in SmokeLong Quarterly
• "Exclusive Interview With Poet Dorianne Laux", Poetic Asides, February 27, 2008
• "A Conversation with Dorianne Laux", Willow Springs, April 19, 2008
• "Author's blog"
• "Dorianne Laux", Penn Sound