Dennis Schmitz
Dennis Schmitz (August 11, 1937 – September 12, 2019) was an American poet.
Dennis Schmitz
- Born
- 1937
- Died
- 2019
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- poet · university teacher · writer
- Honours
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- Languages
- English
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Dennis Schmitz (August 11, 1937 – September 12, 2019) was an American poet.
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Dennis Schmitz (1937–2019) was a dancer, poet and university teacher, among other activities, of American nationality. The dancer was born in Dubuque and died in Oakland.
Dennis Schmitz was educated at Loras College and University of Chicago. The dancer worked for Illinois Institute of Technology and University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
Languages used include English. Honours include Guggenheim Fellowship and Shelley Memorial Award.
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Life
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Dennis Schmitz grew up in Dubuque, Iowa. He graduated from Loras College and the University of Chicago, where he met and married Loretta D'Agostino in 1960; they have five children together. He has taught at Illinois Institute of Technology, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and California State University, Sacramento. His former students include Raymond Carver, Charlene Ungstad, Gary Short, and Gary Thompson. He opposes the death penalty and protests executions in California every time they take place. His work has appeared in the Alaska Quarterly Review, American Poetry Review, The Nation, Paris Review, the Chicago Review, and Zyzzyva. He resided in Sacramento.
Poetry
Poetry
• Our Music (Gunpowder Press, 2022) • Animism (Oberlin College Press, 2014) • The Truth Squad (Copper Canyon Press, 2002) • About Night: Selected and New Poems (Oberlin College Press, 1993) • Eden (University of Illinois Press, 1989) • Singing (Ecco Press, 1985) • String (Ecco Press, 1980) • Goodwill, Inc (1976) • Double Exposures (1971) • We Weep for Our Strangeness (1969)
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- “Dennis Schmitz”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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scholarly publication
- Dennis Schmitz, The American Poetry Anthology, 2019
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2019
Awards
• 2000–2002 Poet Laureate of Sacramento, California • 1987–1988 Shelley Memorial Award • 1978 Guggenheim Fellow • 1976–1977, 1985–1986, 1992–1993 Fellow, National Endowment for the Arts
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- 1.Obituaries The Sacramento Bee (subscription required)
- 2.Voight, Sandye. Poet making trek back to his Dubuque roots; Schmitz will give a reading tonight at the Carnegie-Stout Library. Dubuque Telegraph – Herald. September 18, 2003.
- 3.Europa Publications. International Who's Who in Poetry 2004. Taylor & Francis. 2003. 978-1-85743-178-0.
- 4.Fall 2002 Journal. www.csus.edu.
- 5.Carver, Raymond. Conversations with Raymond Carver. Univ. Press of Mississippi. 180. January 1990. 978-0-87805-449-7.
- 6.Jane Crown's Poetry Radio Online Radio by the Jane Crown Show | BlogTalkRadio Month: 12/2008. www.blogtalkradio.com.
- 7.Gary Short.
- 8.Sklenicka, Carol. Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life. New York: Scribner, 2009
- 9.Cell Door Magazine - Poetry - Ashes Into The Wind by Steven King Ainsworth - Vol 002 Issue 03. www.lairdcarlson.com.
- 10.Sacramento Poetry Center: DENNIS SCHMITZ READING AT ART FOUNDRY FEB. 25. 7 March 2006.
- 11.Alaska Quarterly Review.
- 12.The Paris Review - Summer 1975.
- 13.Chicago Review. humanities.uchicago.edu.
- 14.Poetry from Zyzzyva.
- 15.Dennis Schmitz. Poets & Writers. 28 May 1981.
- 16.Past Poets Laureate - Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission.
- 17.Previous Award Winners.
- 18.All Fellows - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
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