National Poetry Series
1 appearances
Stephen Elliot Dunn
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Stephen Elliot Dunn
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1939-06-24 （Forest Hills, Queens, New York, U.S.）
- Died
- 2021-06-24 （Frostburg, Maryland, U.S.） age 82
- Nationality
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Port Republic, New Jersey, U.S. → Ocean City, New Jersey, U.S. → Frostburg, Maryland, U.S.
Career
- Occupations
- Poet, Professor
- Active Years
- 1974-2021
- Affiliations
- Stockton University, Wichita State University, University of Washington, Columbia University, University of Michigan, Princeton University
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hofstra University | History | History | BA | 1957-1962 | United States |
| Syracuse University | Creative Writing (MFA) | Creative Writing | MFA | 1968-1970 | United States |
Hofstra University
History
/ History
Degree:
BA
Period:
1957-1962
Year of Graduation:
1962
Country:
United States
Played on the university basketball team
Syracuse University
Creative Writing (MFA)
/ Creative Writing
Degree:
MFA
Period:
1968-1970
Year of Graduation:
1970
Country:
United States
Earned an MFA in Creative Writing (poetry)
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Pulitzer Prize for Poetry | Different Hours | — | Pulitzer Prize | 受賞 |
| — | Academy Award in Literature (American Academy of Arts and Letters) | — | — | American Academy of Arts and Letters | 受賞 |
| — | NEA Creative Writing Fellowship | — | — | National Endowment for the Arts | 受賞（フェローシップ） |
| — | Guggenheim Fellowship | — | — | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | 受賞（フェローシップ） |
| — | Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship | — | — | Rockefeller Foundation | 受賞（フェローシップ） |
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
2001
Work:
Different Hours
Organization:
Pulitzer Prize
Result:
受賞
Academy Award in Literature (American Academy of Arts and Letters)
Organization:
American Academy of Arts and Letters
Result:
受賞
NEA Creative Writing Fellowship
Organization:
National Endowment for the Arts
Result:
受賞（フェローシップ）
Guggenheim Fellowship
Organization:
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Result:
受賞（フェローシップ）
Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship
Organization:
Rockefeller Foundation
Result:
受賞（フェローシップ）
Awards & Nominations
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
1 appearances
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Edition 82 (2001) Winner
Works
Major Works
Different Hours
2000 PoetryA collection of poems exploring meaning in ordinary life and personal moments. Uses an accessible voice to treat universal themes.
Everyday lifeLoveAgingLoss
Looking for Holes in the Ceiling
1974 PoetryOne of Dunn's early full-length collections, containing poems that examine the world from a personal point of view.
Personal recollectionObservations of everyday life
New and Selected Poems: 1974-1994
1994 PoetryA selected volume gathering representative poems from 1974 to 1994, showing thematic and stylistic development.
Growth and timeHuman relationships
The Not Yet Fallen World
2022 Poetry (posthumous/selected)A posthumous volume containing some of Dunn's final work; reported to include poems he considered among his best.
ReflectionLife and deathReconciliation with the world
Bibliography
- 5 Impersonations (1971)
- Looking for Holes in the Ceiling (1974)
- Full of Lust and Good Usage (1976)
- A Circus of Needs (1978)
- Work and Love (1981)
- Not Dancing (1984)
- Local Time (1986)
- Between Angels (1989)
- Landscape at the End of the Century (1991)
- New and Selected Poems: 1974-1994 (1994)
- Loosestrife (1996)
- Riffs & Reciprocities (1998)
- Different Hours (2000)
- Walking Light: Memoirs and Essays on Poetry (2001)
- The Insistence of Beauty (2004)
- Everything Else in the World (2006)
- What Goes On: Selected and New Poems 1995-2009 (2009)
- Here and Now (2011)
- Lines of Defense (2014)
- Whereas (2017)
- Pagan Virtues (2019)
- The Not Yet Fallen World (2022)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Plainspoken, observational voiceFocus on everyday detailDirect and reflective tone
- Recurring Motifs
- Everyday lifeFamily and relationshipsTime and agingWork and existential meaning
Health
-
Parkinson's disease晩年Suffered from Parkinson's disease in later life; reported to have affected his health prior to death.
Legacy
Stephen Dunn was an American poet celebrated for rendering universal subjects through everyday moments. He received honors including the Pulitzer Prize and influenced many through both his writing and long teaching career.
Academic Societies
- American Academy of Arts and Letters
Archives
- Stockton University Special Collections (possible)
Trivia
- Born June 24, 1939 and died on his 82nd birthday, June 24, 2021 (same birth and death date).
- Played college basketball and was nicknamed 'Radar' for his jump shot.
- Won the Pulitzer Prize for his 2000 collection Different Hours.
- Authored more than twenty collections of poetry.