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Timothy Donnelly

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Timothy Donnelly

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1969 （Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.）
Nationality
American
Languages
English
Residence History
Providence, Rhode Island (birth) → New York City (resident; Columbia University faculty)

Career

Occupations
Poet, Professor, Editor
Active Years
1996-
Affiliations
Columbia University School of the Arts (Writing Program), Boston Review (former poetry editor), Wave Books (publisher association)

Education

Johns Hopkins University
Degree: BA
Country: United States
BA degree (year unspecified)
Columbia University
School of the Arts / MFA Creative Writing (Poetry)
Degree: MFA
Country: United States
Completed Columbia University's MFA program (year unspecified)

Awards

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
2012
Work: The Cloud Corporation
Organization: Claremont Graduate University (Tufts Poetry Awards)
Result: 受賞
Guggenheim Fellowship
2012
Organization: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Result: 受賞
Bernard F. Conners Prize for Poetry
2002
Organization: The Paris Review
Result: 受賞
Alice Fay di Castagnola Award
2014
Organization: Poetry Society of America
Result: 受賞
Lannan Foundation Residency (Marfa)
2016
Organization: Lannan Foundation
Result: 在籍
James Merrill House Writer in Residence
2024
Organization: James Merrill House
Result: 在籍

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit

2003 Poetry

Donnelly's first collection, containing experimental and fragmented poems that explore language and imagery.

languagememoryfragmented imagery

The Cloud Corporation

2010 Poetry

A collection that incorporates technology, corporate language, and capitalism while interrogating language itself. Winner of the 2012 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.

technologycapitalismlanguage
Translations
  • German edition (Luxbooks; a German-language edition of his work issued by Luxbooks in 2008)

The Problem of the Many

2019 Poetry

A mid-career collection exploring ambiguity, multiplicity, and the problems of individual and collective voice.

ambiguitycollectivitylinguistic experimentation

Chariot

2023 Poetry

A recent collection that revisits questions of being and conveyance through metaphors of ritual and transport.

ritualmovementontology

Bibliography

  • Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit (Grove Press, 2003)
  • The Cloud Corporation (Wave Books, 2010)
  • The Problem of the Many (Wave Books, 2019)
  • Chariot (Wave Books, 2023)
  • "The Cloud Corporation" (Hand Held Editions, 2008)
  • Three Poets (Minus A Press, 2012) — coauthored with John Ashbery and Geoffrey G. O'Brien
  • "Hymn to Life" (Factory Hollow Press, 2014)

Translations of Works

  • German edition (Luxbooks, 2008)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
experimental, fragmented narrationmultilayered language playconceptual and intellectually dense diction
Recurring Motifs
cities and technologycorporate/capitalist discourseself-reflexivity about language

Legacy

Timothy Donnelly is regarded as an important voice in 21st-century American poetry. Known for combining linguistic experimentation with social and economic themes, he has influenced younger poets through teaching and editorial work.

Academic Societies

  • Poetry Society of America (associated)
  • Academy of American Poets (associated)

Trivia

  • Served as poetry editor of the Boston Review from 1996 to 2018.
  • The Cloud Corporation won the 2012 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.
  • His poems have been translated into German, Italian, Spanish, and Albanian.
  • Received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2012.
  • Coauthored the chapbook Three Poets (2012) with John Ashbery and Geoffrey G. O'Brien.