Dennis Nurkse is a poet from

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Life

Nurkse is the son of the eminent Estonian economist

Ragnar Nurkse Ragnar Wilhelm Nurkse (, Käru, Estonia (then Russian Empire) – 6 May 1959, Mont Pèlerin, Switzerland) was an Estonian-American economist and policy maker mainly in the fields of international finance and economic development. He is cons ...

. He has taught workshops at Rikers Island, and his poems about prison life appeared in ''

The American Poetry Review ''The American Poetry Review'' (''APR'') is an American poetry magazine printed every other month on tabloid-sized newsprint. It was founded in 1972 by Stephen Berg and Stephen Parker in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The magazine's editor is Elizabet ...

, Evergreen Review,

The New Yorker ''The New Yorker'' is an American weekly magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Founded as a weekly in 1925, the magazine is published 47 times annually, with five of these issues ...

The Paris Review ''The Paris Review'' is a quarterly English-language literary magazine established in Paris in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton. In its first five years, ''The Paris Review'' published works by Jack Kerouac, Phil ...

TriQuarterly ''TriQuarterly'' is a name shared by an American literary magazine and a series of books, both operating under the aegis of Northwestern University Press. The journal is published twice a year and features fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, liter ...

The Kenyon Review ''The Kenyon Review'' is a literary magazine based in Gambier, Ohio, US, home of Kenyon College. ''The Review'' was founded in 1939 by John Crowe Ransom, critic and professor of English at Kenyon College, who served as its editor until 1959. ' ...

,'' and other magazines. He has taught at The New School University and

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

, and is currently on the faculty at Sarah Lawrence College. He has translated anonymous medieval and flamenco Spanish lyric poems and has written about the Spanish pastoral poems by contemporary

Giannina Braschi Giannina Braschi (born February 5, 1953) is a Puerto Rican poet, novelist, dramatist, and scholar. Her notable works include ''Empire of Dreams'' (1988), ''Yo-Yo Boing!'' (1998) ''and United States of Banana'' (2011). Braschi writes cross-genr ...

. His work has appeared i
''The Evergreen Review''
''The New Yorker,'' ''The Atlantic Monthly,'' ''Poetry'', ''The American Poetry Review,'' ''The Kenyon Review'', ''The Times Literary Supplement'', ''Ploughshares'', ''The Paris Review''. His subjects have included mental health, trauma, and September 11 terrorist attacks.

Honors and awards

* 2007

Guggenheim Fellow Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the a ...

* 1990 Whiting Award * NEA fellowship * NYFA fellowships

Bibliography

Poetry

;Collections * ''Staggered Lights'', Owl Creek Press, (July 1990), * ''Voices Over Water'', Graywolf Press (July 1993), * ''Leaving Xaia'', Four Way Books * ''The Rules of Paradise'', Four Way books * ''The Fall'', Knopf * * ''The Border Kingdom'', Alfred A. Knopf, August 8, 2008 * ''A Night in Brooklyn'', Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. ;List of poems ;Anthologies *

References

External links

Interview with Dennis Nurkse in the Bloomsbury ReviewProfile at The Whiting Foundation
Poets from New York (state) Writers from Brooklyn The New Yorker people Sarah Lawrence College faculty National Endowment for the Arts Fellows American male poets Living people American people of Estonian descent Year of birth missing (living people) The New School faculty Columbia University faculty {{US-poet-stub