Timothy Donnelly
Appearance
Timothy Donnelly | |
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Born | Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. |
Occupation | Professor and poet |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Johns Hopkins University; Columbia University |
Genre | Poetry |
Timothy Donnelly (born June 3, 1969, Providence, Rhode Island)[1] is an American poet.
Life
[edit]He earned his BA from Johns Hopkins University and his MFA in Poetry from Columbia University's MFA in Creative Writing program. He is an associate professor at Columbia University. He became a poetry editor for the Boston Review in 1996.[2]
Donnelly is the author of Twenty-Seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit (Grove Press, 2003), and The Cloud Corporation (Wave Books, 2010).[3]. He was a 2024 James Merrill House Fellow.
Awards and honors
[edit]- 2012: Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, The Cloud Corporation
- 2012: Guggenheim Fellowship
- 2014: Alice Fay di Castagnola Award
Bibliography
[edit]Poetry
[edit]- Collections
- Donnelly, Timothy (2003). Twenty-seven props for a production of Eine Lebenszeit. New York: Grove Press.
- The Cloud Corporation. Wave Books. 21 September 2010. pp. 13–. ISBN 978-1-933517-47-6.
- The Problem of the Many. Wave Books. 2019.
- Chapbooks
- The Cloud Corporation (chapbook) (hand held editions, 2008)
- Three Poets. Minus A Press. 2012. (coauthored with John Ashbery and Geoffrey G. O'Brien)
- "Hymn to Life" (chapbook) (Factory Hollow Press, 2014)
- "Poems for Political Disaster" (chapbook). Boston Review. January 2017. ISBN 978-1946511010.
- List of poems
Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected |
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Diet Mountain Dew | 2016 | Donnelly, Timothy (March 21, 2016). "Diet Mountain Dew". The New Yorker. 92 (6): 72–73. | |
Head of Orpheus | 2023 | Donnelly, Timothy (February 6, 2023). "Head of Orpheus". The New Yorker. 98 (48): 46. |
References
[edit]- ^ "About Timothy Donnelly | Academy of American Poets".
- ^ "Timothy Donnelly - Faculty". Columbia University. Retrieved December 6, 2010.
- ^ Hillel Italie (December 19, 2003), "Poetry; Changing readers a word at a time; For Timothy Donnelly, fame would be nice, but crafting language is its own reward.", Los Angeles Times
External links
[edit]- Timothy Donnelly's author page at Wave Books[permanent dead link]
- Timothy Donnelly's faculty page at Columbia University
- Timothy Donnelly talks about getting "The Cloud Corporation" published in Harper's and "Globus Hystericus" in The Paris Review
- 'The Syntactical Sublime'[usurped], review of The Cloud Corporation in the Oxonian Review
- “A javelin of lavender…asserts a dozen verities”, review of The Cloud Corporation on THEthe Poetry Blog
- "Globus Hystericus". The Paris Review.