Dorianne Laux

Dorianne Laux. Courtesy American Poetry Review.

Dorianne Laux (born January 10, 1952) is an American poet and academic.

Life

Laux was born in 1952 in Augusta, Maine. She worked as a sanatorium cook, a gas station manager, and a maid before receiving a B.A. in English from Mills College in 1988.

Laux taught at the University of Oregon. She is a professor at North Carolina State University’s creative writing program, and the MFA in Writing Program at Pacific University. She is also a contributing editor at the Alaska Quarterly Review.

Her work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Five Points, Kenyon Review, Ms., Orion, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Southern Review, TriQuarterly, Zyzzyva.

Laux lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with her husband, poet Joseph Millar and has a daughter.(Citation needed)

Recognition

• Pushcart Prize
• two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts
• The Best American Poetry 1999
• The Best American Poetry 2006
• Guggenheim Fellowship awarded in 2001
• Oregon Book Award for Facts about the Moon, selected by Ai
• 2006 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize shortlisted for Facts about the Moon
• National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for What We Carry

Publications

Poetry

• Awake: Poems (with introduction by Philip Levine). Brockport, NY: BOA Editions, 1990.
• What We Carry: Poems. Brockport, NY: BOA Editions, 1994.
• Smoke: Poems. Rochester, NY: BOA Editions, 2000.
• Facts About the Moon: Poems. New York: Norton, 2005.
• Superman: The chapbook Red Wing, MN: Red Dragonfly Press, 2008.
• "Dark Charms: Poems" (chapbook). Red Wing, MN: Red Dragonfly Press, 2010. http://www.reddragonflypress.org/music/3108
• The Book of Men: Poems. New York: Norton, 2011.

Non-fiction

• The Poet's Companion: A guide to the pleasures of writing poetry (with Kim Addonizio). New York: Norton, 1997.

Edited

• Best New Poets, 2014: 50 poems from emerging writers (edited with Jazzy Danziger). Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2014.

.Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.

Audio / video 

Poetry Everywhere "Dust" by Dorianne Laux

Dorianne Laux reads two poems

• Dorianne Laux (cassette). Garden Grove, CA: Replay, [1997?]
• The Poet's Companion: A guide to the pleasures of writing poetry (with Kim Addonizio; (CD). Princeton, NJ: Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic, 2009.
• Visiting Writers Series. Portland, OR: Division of Literature and Languages. English Department, Reed College, 2013.

.Except where noted, discographical information courtesy WorldCat.

See also

• List of U.S. poets

References

• "Facts about the Poet" (PDF). Literary Reference. Winter 2006. http://pages.uoregon.edu/crwrweb/files/newsletter/winter2006.pdf. Retrieved 8 January 2012. 

External links

Poems

• "Break" at Poetry 180
• "Roots", Orion, May/June 2008
• "Death comes to me again, a girl"
• "Facts About the Moon" at How a Poem Happens, February 2009
• Two poems by Dorianne Laux ("Laundry And Cigarettes"; "On The Back Porch"), Reading Between A&B
• Dorianne Laux profile & 4 poems at the Academy of American Poets.
• Dorianne Laux - five poems at Cortland Review, Spring 2009.
• Dorianne Laux b. 1952 at the Poetry Foundation.
• The Poetry of Dorianne Laux at Web Del Sol: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4

Prose

• Short stories in SmokeLong Quarterly: "Nearly Free," "Woman in a Bar"

Audio / video

• Audio: Dorianne Laux reads "Facts About the Moon"
• Dorianne Laux at PennSound.
• Dorianne Laux at YouTube

Books

• Dorianne Laux at Amazon.com

About

• Dorianne Laux Official website
• Interview in SmokeLong Quarterly, June 25, 2009