Dennis Schmitz

Dennis Schmitz (born August 11, 1937 in Dubuque, Iowa) is an American poet.

Life

Dennis Schmitz grew up in Dubuque, Iowa.[1] He graduated from Loras College and the University of Chicago, where he met and married Loretta D'Agostino in 1960; they have five children together. He has taught at Illinois Institute of Technology, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee[2] and California State University, Sacramento.[3] His former students include Raymond Carver,[4] Charlene Ungstad,[5] Gary Short,[6] and Gary Thompson.[7]

He opposes the death penalty and protests executions in California every time they take place.[8][9]

His work has appeared in the Alaska Quarterly Review,[10] American Poetry Review, The Nation, Paris Review,[11] the Chicago Review,[12] and Zyzzyva.[13]

He lives in Sacramento.[14]

Awards

Works

Poetry

  • Animism (Oberlin College Press, 2014)
  • The Truth Squad (Copper Canyon Press, 2002)
  • About Night: Selected and New Poems (Oberlin College Press, 1993)
  • Eden (University of Illinois Press, 1989)
  • Singing (Ecco Press, 1985)
  • String (Ecco Press, 1980)
  • Goodwill, Inc (1976)
  • Double Exposures (1971)
  • We Weep for Our Strangeness (1969)

Editor

  • The Sacramento Anthology of 100 Poems. Sacramento’s Poet Laureate Program; Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission.

Review

Schmitz is the kind of poet whose work is unknown to the general public but eagerly read by other writers in top literary magazines like Field or Antaeus. In this volume, he continues the exciting work he has already done with dramatic monologues and religious meditations set on California farms or in the construction sites, flophouses, and movie palaces of Chicago.[18]

References

  1. ↑ Voight, Sandye (September 18, 2003). "Poet making trek back to his Dubuque roots; Schmitz will give a reading tonight at the Carnegie-Stout Library". Dubuque Telegraph - Herald.
  2. ↑ Europa Publications, ed. (2003). International Who's Who in Poetry 2004. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-85743-178-0.
  3. ↑ http://www.csus.edu/pubaf/journal/fall2002/34facultyauthors.htm
  4. ↑ Carver, Raymond; Gentry, Marshall Bruce; Stull, William L (January 1990). Conversations with Raymond Carver. ISBN 978-0-87805-449-7.
  5. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20160304082518/http://www.blogtalkradio.com/the-jane-crown-show/blog/2008/12
  6. ↑ http://www.onlinenevada.org/Gary_Short
  7. ↑ Sklenicka, Carol. Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life. New York: Scribner, 2009
  8. ↑ http://www.lairdcarlson.com/celldoor/00302/Ains00302WrodsfromDR.htm
  9. ↑ http://sacramentopoetrycenter.blogspot.com/2006/03/dennis-schmitz-reading-at-art-foundry.html
  10. ↑ http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/aqr/back-issues/17_1and2.cfm
  11. ↑ http://www.parisreview.com/viewissue.php/prmIID/62
  12. ↑ http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/review/archive1.shtml
  13. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-10-14. Retrieved 2009-09-13.
  14. ↑ http://www.pw.org/content/dennis_schmitz_3
  15. ↑ http://www.sacmetroarts.org/Programs/Poet-Laureate/Past-Poets-Laureate
  16. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-11-01. Retrieved 2009-07-01.
  17. ↑ http://www.gf.org/fellows/all?index=s&page=7
  18. ↑ "Notes on Current Books, Autumn 1980". Virginia Quarterly Review. Autumn 1980.
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