Norman Dubie (April 10, 1945--February 20, 2023) was an American

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from Barre, VT.

Life

He was the author of twenty-eight collections of poetry. Dubie's work often assumes historical personae and has been included in ''

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'', ''FIELD'', ''Narrative,'' ''

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'', and '' Blackbird'', an online journal of literature and the arts. His work has been included in numerous Norton anthologies of poetry. With his latest collection of poems, ''The Quotations of Bone'', published in 2015 by

Copper Canyon Press Copper Canyon Press is an independent, non-profit small press, founded in 1972 specializing exclusively in the publication of poetry. It is located in Port Townsend, Washington. Copper Canyon Press publishes new collections of poetry by both popu ...

, Dubie was the international recipient of the 2016

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. The poems in this collection confront viciousness in its many forms.

Awards

Dubie was the recipient of numerous honors and awards. These include fellowships from the

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and the

Ingram Merrill Foundation The Ingram Merrill Foundation was a private foundation established in the mid-1950s by poet James Merrill (1926-1995), using funds from his substantial family inheritance.J. D. McClatchyBraving the Elements ''The New Yorker'', 27 March 1995. Retriev ...

, the Bess Hokin Prize from ''Poetry'' Magazine and the Modern Poetry Association, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Award. In 2002, he won the PEN Center USA prize for his collection, ''The Mercy Seat: Collected and New Poems.'' Dubie is a graduate of

Goddard College Goddard College is a progressive education private liberal arts low-residency college with three locations in the United States: Plainfield, Vermont; Port Townsend, Washington; and Seattle, Washington. The college offers undergraduate and gra ...

and the

Iowa Writer's 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 Wri ...

. He taught in the graduate Creative Writing Program at

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, in

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, where he was

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of English. The Tucson-based band Calexico have stated that Dubie's poetry was very influential on their album ''Carried to Dust'', particularly the song "Two Silver Trees".

Selected books

* Selected & New Poems (1986) * Groom Falconer (1990) * Radio Sky (1992) * The Mercy Seat : Collected and New Poems 1967-2001 (Copper Canyon Press, 2001) * Ordinary Mornings of a Coliseum (Copper Canyon Press, 2004) * The Insomniac Liar of Topo (

, 2007) * The Volcano (

, 2010) * Quotations of Bone (

, 2015)

Anthologies

* The Morrow Anthology of Younger American Poets *

The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry ''The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry'' is an anthology of two volumes edited by Jahan Ramazani, Richard Ellmann (1918–1987), and Robert O'Clair. The anthology is large, with 1,100 pages in each of the two volumes. Volume I, a ...

References

Sources

Academy of American Poets

External links

* Th
Norman Dubie Papers
are housed at the University of Iowa Special Collections & University Archives. * Norman Dubie'
Poetry Foundation profile

* Norman Dubie's poem "Gotterdammerung" in
''Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts'' (25.1)

Brief biography

Biography, poetry excerpts from Griffin Poetry Prize website
*Interview wit
The Rusty Toque
*Interview with Nancy Mitchell and Adam Tavel fo
Plume Poetry
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