Nationality American Name David Lee | Role Poet | |
Occupation Author, poet, editor, professor Education Western Michigan University Books Downsides of Fish Culture, Abrupt Rural, Animalities, The Nervous Filaments, The Coldest Winter on | ||
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David Dodd Lee (born 1959) is an American poet and editor.
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- Biography
- Poetry and editing
- References
David dodd lee reads affliction artpost poetry marathon
Biography
David Dodd Lee grew up in Michigan. He earned his undergraduate degree in painting and art history in 1986 and the MFA degree in Creative Writing in 1993, both from Western Michigan University. He is also a painter and collage artist. He is currently an assistant professor of Creative Writing at Indiana University at South Bend and lives on the banks of the St. Joseph River in northern Indiana.
Poetry and editing
Lee is the author of nine full-length books of poems and a chapbook. He has published poems in many literary journals including The Nation, Field, Denver Quarterly, CutBank, Gulf Coast, Green Mountains Review, Barrow Street, Cimarron Review, Pleiades, Chattahoochee Review, Diagram, Sycamore Review, Willow Springs, Quarterly West, Prairie Schooner, and American Literary Review. Also a fiction writer, his stories have appeared in Sou’wester, Green Mountains Review, West Branch, and other literary magazines.
Lee is the director of 42 Miles Press, which is based in the Department of English at Indiana University South Bend. He serves as the judge for the annual 42 Miles Press Poetry Award. Winners of the book award include Allan Peterson, Carrie Oeding, Erica Bernheim, Bill Rasmovicz, and Betsy Andrews. Lee is the editor of SHADE, an annual anthology published by Four Way Books, and the former poetry editor of Passages North and Third Coast. In addition he has guest edited recent editions of The Laurel Review (where he is an active contributing editor) and Passages North. He is also the editor of The Other Life, The Selected Poems of Herbert Scott, (Carnegie Mellon, 2010). Together with Donna Munro, he was editor of Half Moon Bay poetry chapbooks, which published titles by Franz Wright and Hugh Seidman, among others.
David Dodd Lee has published two books of "erasure poems" derived from the poetry of John Ashbery. Ashbery has been receptive to this venture and has written a blurb for the second book, And Others, Vaguer Presences (2017).