Stephen Dunn

• Name — Stephen Dunn • Born — 24 June 1939 • Birthplace — Forest Hills, Queens, New York, U.S. • Died — 24 June 2021 • Place of death — Frostburg, Maryland, U.S. • Occupation — Professor and poet • Education — Hofstra University (BA) Syracuse University (MFA) • Genre — Poetry • Awards — Pulitzer Prize for Poetry;

Dunn was born in Forest Hills, Queens, New York on June 24, 1939. His parents were Ellen (Fleishman) and Charles Dunn. He attended Forest Hills High School, where he played basketball. After graduating in 1957, he studied history at Hofstra University. He played guard for its basketball team and was part of the squad that had a 23–1 record during the 1959–60 season. He was nicknamed "Radar" for his ability to make jump shots. Dunn graduated from Hofstra University in 1962 and went on to play one season for the Williamsport Billies of the Eastern Basketball Association. He then worked in advertising until he was 26, when he traveled to Spain to pen a novel, which he ended up discarding. He subsequently undertook postgraduate studies at Syracuse University, obtaining a master's degree in creative writing in 1970.

Dunn began teaching at Stockton University in 1974 and published his first full-length collection entitled Looking for Holes in the Ceiling that same year. He continued working at Stockton for approximately three decades, and also taught at Wichita State University, University of Washington, Columbia University, University of Michigan, and Princeton University. A collection of essays about Dunn's poetry was published in 2013. He finished his last book, The Not Yet Fallen World, shortly before his death. Dunn thought it was the best work he had written. It was published in May 2022, nearly a year after he died,

Dunn married his first wife, Lois Kelly, in 1964. Together, they had two children: Susanne and Andrea. They divorced in 2001. He married Barbara Hurd the following year. Dunn had earlier lived in Port Republic, New Jersey. He later resided at homes in Ocean City, New Jersey, as well as Hurd's hometown of Frostburg, Maryland. He died on the night of his 82nd birthday at his home in Frostburg. He suffered from Parkinson's disease prior to his death.

• Title — Year — First published — Reprinted/collected — Ref • Ambush at five o'clock — 2014 • Salvation — 2005 • Whereas the animal I cannot help but be — 2015 • Charlotte Bronte in Leeds Point — 2003 • The Routine Things Around the House — 2006 • The Kiss — 2007 • Here and Now — 2011 • Mrs. Cavendish and the Dancer — 2014 • Glimpses — 2018

• Walking Light: Memoirs and Essays on Poetry, BOA Editions, Ltd., 2001. • Degrees of Fidelity: Essays on Poetry and the Latitudes of the Personal, Tiger Bark Press, 2018.

* * • Full of Lust and Good Usage, Carnegie-Mellon University Press (Pittsburgh, PA), 1976. • A Circus of Needs, Carnegie-Mellon University Press (Pittsburgh, PA), 1978. • Work and Love, Carnegie-Mellon University Press (Pittsburgh, PA), 1981. • Not Dancing, Carnegie-Mellon University Press (Pittsburgh, PA), 1984. • Local Time, Quill/Morrow (New York, NY), 1986. • Between Angels: Poems, W. W. Norton & Company (New York, NY), 1989. • Landscape at the End of the Century: Poems, W. W. Norton & Company (New York, NY), 1991. • New and Selected Poems: 1974-1994, W. W. Norton & Company (New York, NY), 1994. • Loosestrife: Poems, W. W. Norton & Company (New York, NY), 1996. • Riffs & Reciprocities: Prose Pairs, W. W. Norton & Company (New York, NY), 1998. • Different Hours, W. W. Norton & Company (New York, NY), 2000. • The Insistence of Beauty: Poems, W. W. Norton & Company (New York, NY), 2004. • Local Visitations: Poems, Norton, 2004, • Everything Else in the World, W. W. Norton & Company (New York, NY), 2006. • What Goes On: Selected and New Poems 1995-2009, W. W. Norton (New York, NY), 2009. • Here and Now: Poems, W. W. Norton & Company (New York, NY), 2011. • Lines of Defense, W. W. Norton & Company (New York, NY), 2014. • Whereas: Poems, W. W. Norton & Company (New York, NY), 2017. • Pagan Virtues: Poems, W. W. Norton & Company (New York, NY), 2019. ISBN 978-1324002314 • The Not Yet Fallen World: New and Selected Poems. W. W. Norton & Company (New York, NY), 2022. ISBN 978-0-393-88225-4.