Stephen Dunn

This article is about the American poet. For the professional wrestler known as Steven Dunn, see Steve Doll.

For the American sound engineer, see Stephen Dunn (sound engineer).

Stephen Dunn (born 1939 in New York City) is an American poet. Dunn has written fifteen collections of poetry. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 2001 collection, Different Hours and has received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Dunn completed his B.A. in English at Hofstra University and his M.A. in creative writing at Syracuse University. He has taught at Wichita State University, University of Washington, Columbia University, University of Michigan, Princeton University, and at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.

Dunn had earlier lived in Port Republic, New Jersey, and now spends time at homes in Ocean City, New Jersey, and his wife's hometown of Frostburg, Maryland.

Bibliography

• Five Impersonations, Ox Head Press (Marsall, MN), 1971.
• Looking for Holes in the Ceiling, University of Massachusetts Press (Amherst, MA), 1974.
• Full of Lust and Good Usage, Carnegie-Mellon University Press (Pittsburgh, PA), 1976.
• A Circus of Needs, Carnegie-Mellon University Press (Pittsburgh, PA), 1978.
• Work and Love, Carnegie-Mellon University Press (Pittsburgh, PA), 1981.
• Not Dancing, Carnegie-Mellon University Press (Pittsburgh, PA), 1984.
• Local Time, Quill/Morrow (New York, NY), 1986.
• Between Angels, W. W. Norton & Company (New York, NY), 1989.
• Landscape at the End of the Century, W. W. Norton & Company (New York, NY), 1991.
• New and Selected Poems: 1974-1994, W. W. Norton & Company (New York, NY), 1994.
• Loosestrife, W. W. Norton & Companyn (New York, NY), 1996.
• Riffs & Reciprocities: Prose Pairs, W. W. Norton & Company (New York, NY), 1998.
• Different Hours, W. W. Norton & Company (New York, NY), 2000.
• The Insistence of Beauty, W. W. Norton & Company (New York, NY), 2004.
• Everything Else in the World, W. W. Norton & Company (New York, NY), 2006.
• What Goes On: Selected and New Poems 1995-2009, W. W. Norton (New York, NY), 2009.
• Here and Now: Poems, W. W. Norton & Company (New York, NY), 2011.

External links

• Interview with Stephen Dunn for The Cortland Review.
• Author Interview for CommonLine.
• Author interview for Guernica Magazine (Guernicamag.com)
• Article on Dunn winning the 2001 Pulitzer Prize
• Stephen Dunn biography
• Audio: Stephen Dunn reads "Talk to God" from the book What Goes On (via poemsoutloud.net)