Stephen Elliot Dunn (June 24, 1939 – June 24, 2021) was an American poet and educator. He wrote fifteen collections of poetry. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 2001 collection, Different Hours and received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.[2]

Stephen Dunn
Stephen Dunn at the 2012 National Book Festival
Stephen Dunn at the 2012 National Book Festival
Born(1939-06-24)June 24, 1939[1]
Queens, New York, U.S.
DiedJune 24, 2021(2021-06-24) (aged 82)
Frostburg, Maryland, U.S.
OccupationProfessor and poet
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHofstra University;
Syracuse University.
GenrePoetry
Notable awardsPulitzer Prize for Poetry;
Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters

Dunn died on his 82nd birthday at his Frostburg, Maryland home on June 24, 2021 from problems caused by Parkinson's disease.[3]

Collections

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  • 5 impersonations. Marshall, Minn.: Ox Head Press. 1971. LCCN 79301667. OCLC 656950.
  • Looking for holes in the ceiling : poems. Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press. 1974. ISBN 9780870231544.
  • Full of Lust and Good Usage, Carnegie-Mellon University Press (Pittsburgh, PA), 1976. ISBN 9780915604074
  • A Circus of Needs, Carnegie-Mellon University Press (Pittsburgh, PA), 1978. ISBN 9780915604500
  • Work and Love, Carnegie-Mellon University Press (Pittsburgh, PA), 1981. ISBN 9780915604609
  • Not Dancing, Carnegie-Mellon University Press (Pittsburgh, PA), 1984. ISBN 9780887480003
  • Local Time, Quill/Morrow (New York, NY), 1986. ISBN 9780688062965
  • Between Angels: Poems, W. W. Norton & Company (New York, NY), 1989. ISBN 9780393026917
  • Landscape at the End of the Century: Poems, W. W. Norton & Company (New York, NY), 1991. ISBN 9780393029727
  • New and Selected Poems: 1974-1994, W. W. Norton & Company (New York, NY), 1994. ISBN 9780393313000
  • Loosestrife: Poems, W. W. Norton & Companyn (New York, NY), 1996. ISBN 9780393316834
  • Riffs & Reciprocities: Prose Pairs, W. W. Norton & Company (New York, NY), 1998. ISBN 9780393319576
  • Different Hours, W. W. Norton & Company (New York, NY), 2000. ISBN 9780393322323
  • The Insistence of Beauty: Poems, W. W. Norton & Company (New York, NY), 2004. ISBN 9780393059557
  • Local Visitations: Poems, Norton, 2004, ISBN 9780393326031
  • Everything Else in the World, W. W. Norton & Company (New York, NY), 2006. ISBN 9780393330380
  • What Goes On: Selected and New Poems 1995-2009, W. W. Norton (New York, NY), 2009. ISBN 9780393338553
  • Here and Now: Poems, W. W. Norton & Company (New York, NY), 2011. ISBN 9780393080216
  • Lines of Defense, W. W. Norton & Company (New York, NY), 2014. ISBN 9780393240818
  • Whereas: Poems, W. W. Norton & Company (New York, NY), 2017. ISBN 978-0393254679
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References

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  1. Gale, Cengage Learning (2016). A Study Guide for Stephen Dunn's "The Reverse Side". ISBN 9781410356642. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
  2. "Conversation with Pulitzer Prize Winner Stephen Dunn — Interview by Joseph Osel". www.commonlinejournal.com. Archived from the original on 2018-10-08. Retrieved 2021-06-25.
  3. Genzlinger, Neil (June 25, 2021). "Stephen Dunn, Poet Who Celebrated the Ordinary, Dies at 82". The New York Times. Retrieved June 25, 2021.

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