Matt Donovan (poet)
Matt Donovan (born Ohio) is an American poet and nonfiction writer. A native of Hudson, Ohio, Donovan graduated from Vassar College with an AB, from Lancaster University with an MA, and from New York University with an MFA. He teaches at Santa Fe University of Art and Design.[1]
Life and career
[edit]He is the author of two collections of poetry – Vellum (Mariner, 2007) and the chapbook Ten Burnt Lakes (Tupelo Press, forthcoming 2017) – as well as the collection of essays, A Cloud of Unusual Size and Shape: Meditations on Ruin and Redemption (Trinity University Press, 2016). His work appeared in AGNI,[2] Blackbird,[3] Poetry,[4] The Kenyon Review,[5] The Gettysburg Review,[6] The Threepenny Review,[7] and The Virginia Quarterly Review,[8] among others literary journals.
He is the recipient of a Rome Prize in Literature, a Whiting Award[9] a Pushcart Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature, a Lannan Writing Residency Fellowship, the Larry Levis Reading Prize from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Creative Capital award.[10][11]
He is currently collaborating on the chamber opera Inheritance with his wife, artist Ligia Bouton, as well as the soprano Susan Narucki, and composer Lei Liang.[12]
Works
[edit]Books
[edit]- Vellum. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2007. ISBN 978-0-618-82212-6.
Matt Donovan (poet).
- A Cloud of Unusual Size and Shape: Meditations on Ruin and Redemption. Trinity University Press. 2016.
- Ten Burnt Lakes. Tupelo Press. Forthcoming 2017.
Essays
[edit]- "Villa of the Mysteries, Pompeii". The Threepenny Review. 131. Fall 2012.
References
[edit]- ^ "Creative Writing Department Faculty | Writing Professors | Santa Fe University of Art and Design". Archived from the original on 2011-09-03. Retrieved 2011-09-27.
- ^ "AGNI Online: Author Matt Donovan". Archived from the original on 2011-09-26. Retrieved 2011-09-27.
- ^ "Matt Donovan, Blackbird". blackbird.vcu.edu.
- ^ "March 2003 | Poetry Magazine". Poetry Foundation. September 27, 2021.
- ^ http://www.kenyonreview.org/issues/summer11/index.php[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Gettysburg Review - Past Selections". Archived from the original on 2012-04-15. Retrieved 2011-09-27.
- ^ "Threepenny: Issue 75, Fall 1998". www.threepennyreview.com.
- ^ "VQR » Matt Donovan". Archived from the original on 2012-04-06. Retrieved 2011-09-27.
- ^ "Matt Donovan". www.whiting.org.
- ^ "Matthew Donovan's "Vellum" selected for VCU's Levis Reading Prize – VCU News Center". www.news.vcu.edu. Archived from the original on 11 June 2010. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
- ^ "Creative Capital - Investing in Artists who Shape the Future". creative-capital.org. Retrieved 2016-11-07.
- ^ "'Inheritance': A haunting chamber opera debuts at UC San Diego's Experimental Theater in La Jolla". La Jolla Light. 2018-10-24. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
External links
[edit]- www.mattdonovanwriting.com).
- Profile at The Whiting Foundation
- James Longenbach (July 22, 2007). "Writing in the Margins". The New York Times.
- http://coldfrontmag.com/tag/matt-donovan
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