Summary
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 National Book Award for Poetry. His other books include A Whaler’s Dictionary (Milkweed Editions), a collection of essays about Moby Dick. His honors include a Lannan Foundation Residency[1] and a Guggenheim Fellowship.[2]
His poems have appeared widely in literary journals, including The Boston Review, The New Republic, Fence, Poetry, Chicago Review, VOLT, The Colorado Review, Paris Review, and New American Writing, and in anthologies including Best American Poetry. His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Southern Review, The Poker, Rain Taxi, The Denver Quarterly, Interim, and other venues. He serves as Poetry Advisor for the literary journal A Public Space.[3]
Beachy-Quick was born in 1973[4] 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.[5]
He attended Hamilton College, the University of Denver, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He has taught writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and currently he is an assistant professor of English at Colorado State University. He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado with his wife and daughters.[6]
Published works edit
Full-length poetry collections edit
- Library Of— (Textshop Editions, 2021)
- Variations on Dawn and Dusk (Omnidawn, 2019)
- gentleness (Tupelo Press, 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, 2003)
Translated poetry collections edit
- Wind—Mountain—Oak: The Poems of Sappho (Tupelo Press, forthcoming June 2023[7])
- The Thinking Root: The Poetry of the Earliest Greek Philosophy (Milkweed Editions, 2023)
- Stone-Garland: Six Poets from the Greek Lyric Tradition (Milkweed Editions, 2020)
Books edit
- Of Silence and Song (Milkweed Editions, 2017)
- An Impenetrable Screen of Purest Sky (Coffee House Press, 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 edit
- Conversities (with Srikanth Reddy) (1913 Press, 2012)
- Work from Memory (with Matthew Goulish) (Ahsahta Press, 2012)
Chapbooks edit
- Overtakelessness. Spork Press. 2010.
- Canto (with Srikanth Reddy). The Offending Adam. 2010.[permanent dead link]
- Mobius Crowns (with Srikanth Reddy). P-Queue. 2008.
- Apology for the Book of Creatures. Ahsahta. 2008.
- Sleep/Echo/Song (Wintered Press, 2006)
References edit
- ^ "Lannan Foundation > Past Residents". Archived from the original on 2008-10-12. Retrieved 2009-05-27.
- ^ "Dan Beachy-Quick Awarded 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship - English | Colorado State University". 10 April 2015.
- ^ "Home - English | Colorado State University". 13 August 2023.
- ^ Library of Congress Online Catalog
- ^ The New York Times > Modern Love: Disassembling My Childhood > By Dan Beachy-Quick > August 3, 2008
- ^ "Tupelo Press > Author Page > Dan Beachy-Quick". Archived from the original on 2009-07-17. Retrieved 2009-05-27.
- ^ "Wind—Mountain—Oak: The Poems of Sappho". Tupelo Press. Retrieved 2023-04-29.
Sources edit
- Library of Congress Online Catalog
- Colorado State University > Faculty Bios
External links edit
- 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 Archived 2009-07-17 at the Wayback Machine
- Alice James Books > Author Page > Dan Beachy-Quick
- Ahsahta Press > Author Page: Dan Beachy-Quick
- The Boston Review > Review by Dan Beachy-Quick of The Radi Os, by Ronald Johnson
- 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