Stuart Dischell (born May 29, 1954 in Atlantic City, New Jersey) is an American

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and Professor in English

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in the Master of Fine Arts Program at the

University of North Carolina at Greensboro The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG or UNC Greensboro) is a public research university in Greensboro, North Carolina. It is part of the University of North Carolina system. UNCG, like all members of the UNC system, is a stand- ...

Career

Stuart Dischell studied

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Antioch College Antioch College is a private liberal arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Founded in 1850 by the Christian Connection, the college began operating in 1852 as a non-sectarian institution; politician and education reformer Horace Mann was its ...

and received his Master of Fine Arts degree at the ''Writers workshop'' of the

University of Iowa The University of Iowa (UI, U of I, UIowa, or simply Iowa) is a public research university in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. Founded in 1847, it is the oldest and largest university in the state. The University of Iowa is organized into 12 col ...

, where he studied poetry with

Donald Justice Donald Rodney Justice (August 12, 1925 – August 6, 2004) was an American teacher of writing and poet who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1980. In summing up Justice's career, David Orr wrote, "In most ways, Justice was no different from a ...

, Stanley Plumly and Jon Anderson. After graduating Iowa, he moved to

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and taught at

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. Since 1992, he has taught

in the Master of Fine Arts Program at the

. He also taught in the ''Sarah Lawrence Summer Literary Seminars'' and in the ''Low Residenc
MFA Program for Writers
' at Warren Wilson College.

Publications

*''Animate Earth'' (Limited edition), Jeanne Duvall Editions, 1988 *''Good Hope Road'' (National Poetry Series), Viking Books, 1993 *''Evening and Avenues'', Penguin Books, 1996 *''Dig Safe'' Penguin Books, 2003 *''Backwards Days'', Penguin Books, 2007 *''Touch Monkey'', Forklift Ink., 2013 *''Standing on Z'', Unicorn Press, 2016 *''Children with Enemies'', University Of Chicago Press, 2017 Stuart Dischell has also been published in anthologies like ''Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud'', ''Hammer and Blaze: A Gathering of Contemporary American Poets'' ''The Pushcart prize, XIX, 1994-1995: best of the small presses'', and ''Good Poems'' and in various media such as ''The Atlantic'', ''New Republic'', ''Agni'', From the Fishouse, ''Ploughshares'', ''Slate'', ''The Kenyon Review'' and the ''Alaska Quarterly Review''.

Awards and honors

*''National Poetry Series Award, 1991'' *''Pushcart Prize, 1994'' *''National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1996'' *''North Carolina Arts Fellowship, 2001'' *''John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 2004'' *''National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 2008''.

References

External links

* Stuart Dischell's website: http://www.stuartdischellpoetry.com/ * Stuart Dischell's page on North Carolina University in Greensboro website: http://mfagreensboro.org/faculty/stuart-dischell/ * National Endowment for the Arts: http://arts.gov/writers-corner/bio/stuart-dischell * John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation: http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/stuart-dischell/ * Academy of American Poets: http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/stuart-dischell
''The Atlantic''''New Republic''From the Fishouse''Ploughshares''''The Kenyon Review''''Alaska Quarterly Review''
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