Dennis Schmitz (August 11, 1937 – September 12, 2019) was an American poet.[1]

Life

Dennis Schmitz grew up in Dubuque, Iowa.[2] 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[3] and California State University, Sacramento.[4] His former students include Raymond Carver,[5] Charlene Ungstad,[6] Gary Short,[7] and Gary Thompson.[8]

He opposes the death penalty and protests executions in California every time they take place.[9][10]

His work has appeared in the Alaska Quarterly Review,[11] American Poetry Review, The Nation, Paris Review,[12] the Chicago Review,[13] and Zyzzyva.[14]

He resided in Sacramento.[15]

Awards

Works

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)

Editor

  • The Sacramento Anthology of 100 Poems. Sacramento’s Poet Laureate Program; Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission.

References

  1. ↑ Obituaries The Sacramento Bee (subscription required)
  2. ↑ Voight, Sandye (September 18, 2003). "Poet making trek back to his Dubuque roots; Schmitz will give a reading tonight at the Carnegie-Stout Library". Dubuque Telegraph – Herald. Archived from the original on October 25, 2012.
  3. ↑ Europa Publications, ed. (2003). International Who's Who in Poetry 2004. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-85743-178-0.
  4. ↑ "Fall 2002 Journal". www.csus.edu. Archived from the original on January 27, 2003.
  5. ↑ Carver, Raymond; Gentry, Marshall Bruce; Stull, William L (January 1990). Conversations with Raymond Carver. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 180. ISBN 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. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved January 12, 2022.
  7. ↑ http://www.onlinenevada.org/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. Archived from the original on February 21, 2002.
  10. ↑ "Sacramento Poetry Center: DENNIS SCHMITZ READING AT ART FOUNDRY FEB. 25". March 7, 2006.
  11. ↑ "Alaska Quarterly Review". Alaska Quarterly Review. Retrieved June 18, 2023.
  12. ↑ "The Paris Review - Summer 1975". Archived from the original on October 3, 2009. Retrieved July 1, 2009.
  13. ↑ "Chicago Review". humanities.uchicago.edu. Archived from the original on June 12, 2002.
  14. ↑ "Poetry from Zyzzyva". Archived from the original on October 14, 2009. Retrieved September 13, 2009.
  15. ↑ "Dennis Schmitz". Poets & Writers. May 28, 1981. Retrieved June 18, 2023.
  16. ↑ "Past Poets Laureate - Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission".
  17. ↑ "Previous Award Winners". Archived from the original on November 1, 2009. Retrieved July 1, 2009.
  18. ↑ "All Fellows - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Archived from the original on June 3, 2011. Retrieved July 1, 2009.
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