Dan Beachy-Quick is an American poet, writer, and critic. He is the author of eight collections of poems, most recently, ''Variations on Dawn and Dusk'' ( Omnidawn Publishing), longlisted for the 2019

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. His other books include ''A Whaler’s Dictionary'' (

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), a collection of essays about ''

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.'' His honors include a Lannan Foundation Residency and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His poems have appeared widely in literary journals, including ''

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, Fence,

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Chicago Review ''Chicago Review'' is a literary magazine founded in 1946 and published quarterly in the Humanities Division at the University of Chicago. The magazine features contemporary poetry, fiction, and criticism, often publishing works in translation and ...

, VOLT, The Colorado Review,

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'', and ''

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'', and in anthologies including ''

Best American Poetry ''The Best American Poetry'' series consists of annual poetry anthologies, each containing seventy-five poems. Background The series, begun by poet and editor David Lehman in 1988, has a different guest editor every year. Lehman, still the general ...

.'' His essays and reviews have appeared in ''

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The Southern Review ''The Southern Review'' is a quarterly literary magazine that was established by Robert Penn Warren in 1935 at the behest of Charles W. Pipkin and funded by Huey Long as a part of his investment in Louisiana State University. It publishes fiction ...

, The Poker,

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, The

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, Interim,'' and other venues. He serves as Poetry Advisor for the literary journal

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. Beachy-Quick was born in 1973 in Chicago, and grew up in Colorado and upstate New York. His parents divorced when he was three and he was raised by his mother in Colorado, and spent summers in Ithaca, New York, with his father and grandparents. He attended

Hamilton College Hamilton College is a private liberal arts college in Clinton, Oneida County, New York. It was founded as Hamilton-Oneida Academy in 1793 and was chartered as Hamilton College in 1812 in honor of inaugural trustee Alexander Hamilton, following ...

, the

University of Denver The University of Denver (DU) is a private research university in Denver, Colorado. Founded in 1864, it is the oldest independent private university in the Rocky Mountain Region of the United States. It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Univ ...

, and the

Iowa Writers' Workshop The Iowa Writers' Workshop, at the University of Iowa, is a celebrated graduate-level creative writing program in the United States. The writer Lan Samantha Chang is its director. Graduates earn a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in Creative W ...

. He has taught writing at the

School of the Art Institute of Chicago The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is a private art school associated with the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) in Chicago, Illinois. Tracing its history to an art students' cooperative founded in 1866, which grew into the museum and ...

, and currently he is an assistant professor of English at Colorado State University. He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado with his wife and daughters.

Published works

Full-length poetry collections

* ''Library Of—'' (Textshop Editions, 2021) *''Variations on Dawn and Dusk'' (Omnidawn, 2019) * ''gentleness'' (

Tupelo Press Tupelo Press is an American not-for-profit literary press founded in 1999. It produced its first titles in 2001, publishing poetry, fiction and non-fiction. Originally located in Dorset, Vermont, the press has since moved to North Adams, Massachus ...

, 2015) * ''Circle's Apprentice'' (Tupelo Press, 2011) * ''This Nest, Swift Passerine'' (Tupelo Press, 2009) * ''Mulberry'' (Tupelo Press, 2006) * ''Spell'' (Ahsahta Press, 2004) * ''North True South Bright'' (

Alice James Books Alice James Books is an American non-profit poetry press located in Farmington, Maine and affiliated with the University of Maine at Farmington. History and mission "Alice James Books was founded as a co-operative press in Cambridge, MA in 19 ...

, 2003)

Translated poetry collections

*''Wind—Mountain—Oak: The Poems of Sappho'' (Tupelo Press, forthcoming June 2023) *''The Thinking Root: The Poetry of the Earliest Greek Philosophy'' (

, 2023) *''Stone-Garland: Six Poets from the Greek Lyric Tradition'' (Milkweed Editions, 2020)

Books

* ''Of Silence and Song'' (

, 2017) * ''An Impenetrable Screen of Purest Sky'' (

Coffee House Press Coffee House Press is a nonprofit independent press based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The press’s goal is to "produce books that celebrate imagination, innovation in the craft of writing, and the many authentic voices of the American experience ...

, 2013) * ''A Whaler’s Dictionary'' (Milkweed Editions, 2008) * ''Wonderful Investigations: Essays, Meditations, Tales'' (Milkweed Editions, 2012) * ''A Brighter Word Than Bright: Keats at Work'' (Muse Books, 2013)

Book-length collaborative projects

* ''Conversities'' (with Srikanth Reddy) (1913 Press, 2012) * ''Work from Memory'' (with Matthew Goulish) (Ahsahta Press, 2012)

Chapbooks

* * * * * ''Sleep/Echo/Song'' (Wintered Press, 2006)

References

Sources

Library of Congress Online Catalog

External links

''The Offending Adam'' > Dan Beachy-Quick & Srikanth Reddy from ''Canto''

Beachy-Quick reading at Northwestern University's 2nd Annual Spring Writers' Festival, 2009

Tupelo Press > Author Page > Dan Beachy-Quick

* ttps://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/fashion/03love.html?_r=1 ''The New York Times'' > ''Modern Love: Disassembling My Childhood'' > By Dan Beachy-Quick > August 3, 2008
''Christopher Nelson's Poetry Blog'' > Interview with Dan Beachy-Quick on ''Overtakelessness'' > November 20, 2010
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