Dionisio D. Martinez
Martinez (born 7 April 1956), is a Cuban-born poet who grew up speaking Spanish, raised first in Spain, then in the United States. His work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, Georgia Review, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, New Republic, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Virginia Quarterly Review. He lives in Tampa, Florida.
Dionisio D. Martinez
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- 1956
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- Cuba
- Occupation
- poet
- Honours
- Guggenheim Fellowship
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• "Belated Valentine for Alina", Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 1995 • "Rest before you sleep", Poetry (September 2008) • "Tipping over the actuarial tables", Poetry Foundation
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1956
Dionisio D. Martinez was born on 7 April 1956.
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• 1993 Whiting Award • 1997 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship • 1998 Guggenheim Fellowship • 1999 National Poetry Series, for Climbing Back
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- 1.Ramazani, Jahan, Richard Ellman and Robert O'Clair, The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Volume 2: Contemporary Poetry, third edition, 2003, p 1030, New York: W.W. Norton & Co.
- 2.The Kenyon Review.
- 3.Dionisio D. Martinez.
- 4.John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Dionisio D. Martínez.
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