Dorianne Laux
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| Born |
January 10, 1952 Augusta, Maine |
| Occupation | Poet, professor |
| Alma mater | Mills College |
| Notable works | The Book of Men (2011), Facts about the Moon (2005), What We Carry (1994) |
| Spouse | Joseph Millar |
| Children | 1 |
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Dorianne Laux (born January 10, 1952 in Augusta, Maine) is an American poet.
Biography
Laux worked as a sanatorium cook, a gas station manager, and a maid before receiving a B.A. in English from Mills College in 1988.[1]
Laux taught at the University of Oregon. She is a professor at North Carolina State University’s creative writing program, and the MFA in Writing Program at Pacific University.[2] She is also a contributing editor at The Alaska Quarterly Review.
Her work appeared in American Poetry Review, Five Points, Kenyon Review, Ms., Orion, Ploughshares,[3] Prairie Schooner, Southern Review, TriQuarterly, Zyzzyva.[4] She has also appeared in online journals such as Web Del Sol.[5]
Laux lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with her husband, poet Joseph Millar.[2] She has one daughter.[5]
Awards
- The Paterson Prize for The Book of Men
- The Roanoke-Chowan Award for The Book of Men
- Pushcart Prize
- Two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts[6]
- The Best American Poetry 1999
- The Best American Poetry 2006
- The Best American Poetry 2013
- List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2001
- Oregon Book Award for Facts about the Moon, selected by Ai[1]
- 2006 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize shortlisted for Facts about the Moon
- National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for What We Carry
Works
- Awake. introduced by Philip Levine. BOA Editions. 1990. ISBN 978-0-918526-76-2. re-issued by Eastern Washington University Press
- What We Carry. BOA Editions. 1994. ISBN 978-1-880238-07-3.
- Smoke. BOA Editions. 2000. ISBN 978-1-880238-86-8.
- Facts about the Moon. W. W. Norton & Company. 2005. ISBN 978-0-393-32962-9.
- Superman: The Chapbook Red Dragonfly Press January 2008[1]
- Dark Charms Red Dragonfly Press 2010
- The Book of Men: Poems. W. W. Norton. 28 February 2011. ISBN 978-0-393-07955-5.
- The Book of Women, Red Dragonfly Press 2012 ISBN 9781937693046
Anthologies
- Best of The American Poetry Review
- The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry
- thrice in Best American Poetry.
As editor
- Kim Addonizio, Dorianne Laux (1997). The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry. W.W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-31654-4.
References
- 1 2 3 "Dorianne Laux". Poets.org. The Academy of American Poets. Retrieved February 5, 2013.
- 1 2 "Core Faculty". Pacific University. Retrieved February 5, 2013.
- ↑ "Dorianne Laux". Author Detail. Ploughshares. Retrieved February 5, 2013.
- ↑ "Dorianne Laux". Directory of Writers. Poets & Writers. Retrieved February 5, 2013.
- 1 2 "Dorianne Laux". Web Del Sol. Retrieved February 5, 2013.
- ↑ "Dorianne Laux". Writers' Corner. National Endowment for the Arts. Retrieved February 5, 2013.
- "Facts about the Poet" (PDF). Literary Reference. Winter 2006. Retrieved 8 January 2012.
External links
- Official website
- Dorianne Laux's poem "Home Movies" in Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts (23.1).