Timothy Donnelly (born June 3, 1969, Providence, Rhode Island)[1] is an American poet.
Timothy Donnelly | |
|---|---|
| Born | Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. |
| Occupation | Professor and poet |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Johns Hopkins University; Columbia University |
| Genre | Poetry |
Life
editHe 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
edit- 2012: Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, The Cloud Corporation
- 2012: Guggenheim Fellowship
- 2014: Alice Fay di Castagnola Award
Bibliography
editPoetry
edit- 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
edit- ^ "About Timothy Donnelly | Academy of American Poets".
- ^ "Timothy Donnelly - Faculty". Columbia University. Retrieved December 6, 2010.
- ^ 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
External links
edit- Timothy Donnelly's author page at Wave Books[permanent dead link]
- Timothy Donnelly's faculty page at Columbia University
- Timothy Donnelly talks about getting "The Cloud Corporation" published in Harper's and "Globus Hystericus" in The Paris Review
- 'The Syntactical Sublime'[usurped], review of The Cloud Corporation in the Oxonian Review
- “A javelin of lavender…asserts a dozen verities”, review of The Cloud Corporation on THEthe Poetry Blog
- "Globus Hystericus". The Paris Review.
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