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Name
  
Dennis Schmitz


Role
  
Poet

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Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada

Books
  
The truth squad, We weep for our strangeness, Animism, Goodwill - Inc, Singing

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

Contents

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Life

Dennis Schmitz grew up in Dubuque, Iowa. 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 and California State University, Sacramento. His former students include Raymond Carver, Charlene Ungstad, Gary Short, and Gary Thompson.

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

His work has appeared in the Alaska Quarterly Review, American Poetry Review, The Nation, Paris Review, the Chicago Review, and Zyzzyva.

He lives in Sacramento.

Awards

  • 2000–2002 Poet Laureate of Sacramento, California
  • 1987–1988 Shelley Memorial Award
  • 1978 Guggenheim Fellow
  • 1976–1977, 1985–1986, 1992–1993 Fellow, National Endowment for the Arts
  • 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.

    References

    Dennis Schmitz Wikipedia


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