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Gregory Donovan
OccupationPoet and Professor of Creative Writing
NationalityUnited States of America
Period1970s-present
GenrePoetry

Gregory Donovan (b. 1950 Mammoth Springs, Arkansas) is a contemporary American poet who teaches poetry, fiction and literature courses in the Department of English at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is a founding editor of Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts. For many years he also was director of Virginia Commonwealth University's Creative Writing Program.

Career

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He was educated at the University of Missouri, the University of Utah, and the State University of New York at Binghamton.

Donovan joined the faculty of Virginia Commonwealth University in 1983, and soon after he began running its newly founded creative writing MFA program.

Poetry

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Donovan's poetry is

The noted poet Richard Hugo selected first book, Icehouse Lights, as a winner of the prestigious Yale Series of Younger Poets prize. poems concern themselves with emotive basics: leaving home, watching those we love age and die, the inescapable drone of our mortality," Hugo wrote. "Yet as poems, they are far from usual. They help us welcome inside, again and again, the most personal of feelings."[1] 

has gone on to publish six more books of poetry, all with the University of Pittsburgh Press.  Wojahn has also edited a volume of poetry by his late wife, Lynda Hull, entitled The Only World (HarperPerennial, 1995), as well as her more recent Collected Poems (Graywolf, 2006).

Awards

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Works

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Poetry Books

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  • Interrogation Palace: New and Selected Poems 1982-2004. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 2006. ISBN 9780822959175.
  • Spirit Cabinet. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 2002. ISBN 9780822957768.
  • The Falling Hour. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 1997. ISBN 9780822939955.
  • Late Empire. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 1994. ISBN 9780822937937.
  • Mystery Train. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 1990. ISBN 9780822936374.
  • Glassworks. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 1987. ISBN 9780822935537.
  • Icehouse Lights. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1982. ISBN 9780300028164.

Essays

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  • Strange Good Fortune (Arkansas, 2001)[9]
  • "The Language of My Former Heart" : The Memory-Narrative In Recent American Poetry

(Published in Green Mountains Review 1988)

Edited

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  • Lynda Hull (1995). David Wojahn (ed.). The Only World. HarperPerennial. ISBN 9780060951122.
  • Profile of Twentieth Century American Poetry, with Jack Myers (Southern Illinois University, 1991)

Critical reception

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Wojahn's Interrogation Palace has received a number of accolades, and has been received favorably by critics and fellow contemporary American poets.

Peter Campion, writing in Poetry magazine, called the new work "Superb. Powerful, panoramic. In Interrogation Palace Wojahn picked the perfect title: these are poems of both largesse and terror. . . . He writes with as much formal and emotional strength as any poet alive."[10]

"Wojahn’s poems . . . integrate confessional and academic modes with honesty and skill," wrote Fred Muratori in Library Journal.[11]

National Book Award-winner Jean Valentine wrote:

After September 11th, one of the first living poets I thought of was David Wojahn: someone who could follow our tragedy to its grave depths, with dignity and unsparingness, and egolessness, and who would stay with it—and us—as long as need be. For life. His poetry is, as Norman Dubie has said, the poetry of conscience; and here, at the birth of our new century, we are grateful.[12]

References

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  1. ^ Book description at Amazon.com Accessed on June 19, 2007.
  2. ^ University of Pittsburgh Press Accessed on June 19, 2007.
  3. ^ Virginia Commonwealth University press release Accessed on June 17, 2007.
  4. ^ Union Institute & University press release Accessed on June 17, 2007
  5. ^ Blackbird Accessed June 17, 2007.
  6. ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=ADC2AAAACAAJ&dq=David+Wojahn
  7. ^ http://www.news.vcu.edu/vcu_view/pages.aspx?nid=2612
  8. ^ "12 college teachers honored in Virginia". The Richmond Times Dispatch. January 27, 2009.
  9. ^ University of Arkansas Press. Accessed June 17, 2007.
  10. ^ Poetry, January 2007 Click on "Reviews." Accessed on June 19, 2007.
  11. ^ Library Journal, February 1, 2006 Click on "Reviews." Accessed on June 19, 2007.
  12. ^ University of Pittsburgh Press Click on "Reviews." Accessed on June 19, 2007.
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