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Timothy Donnelly

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Timothy Donnelly
BornProvidence, Rhode Island, U.S.
OccupationProfessor and poet
NationalityAmerican
Alma materJohns Hopkins University;
Columbia University
GenrePoetry

Timothy Donnelly (born June 3, 1969, Providence, Rhode Island)[1] is an American poet.

Life

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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

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Bibliography

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Poetry

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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
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

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  1. ^ "About Timothy Donnelly | Academy of American Poets".
  2. ^ "Timothy Donnelly - Faculty". Columbia University. Retrieved December 6, 2010.
  3. ^ 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
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