Dan Beachy-Quick is an American poet, writer, and critic. He is the author of eight collections of poems, most recently, ''Variations on Dawn and Dusk'' (
Omnidawn Publishing), longlisted for the 2019
National Book Award for Poetry
The National Book Award for Poetry is one of five annual National Book Awards, which are given by the National Book Foundation to recognize outstanding literary work by US citizens. They are awards "by writers to writers". . His other books include ''A Whaler’s Dictionary'' (
Milkweed Editions), a collection of essays about ''
Moby Dick
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.'' His honors include a
Lannan Foundation Residency and a
Guggenheim Fellowship
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.
His poems have appeared widely in literary journals, including ''
The Boston Review
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,
The New Republic
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, Fence,
Poetry
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,
Chicago Review
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, VOLT,
The Colorado Review,
Paris Review
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'', and ''
New American Writing
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'', and in anthologies including ''
Best American Poetry
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Background
The series, begun by poet and editor David Lehman in 1988, has a different guest editor every year. Lehman, still the genera ...
.'' His essays and reviews have appeared in ''
The New York Times
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,
The Southern Review
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, The Poker,
Rain Taxi
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, The
Denver Quarterly, Interim,'' and other venues. He serves as Poetry Advisor for the literary journal
A Public Space.
Beachy-Quick was born in 1973 in Chicago, and grew up in Colorado and upstate New York. His parents divorced when he was three and he was raised by his mother in Colorado, and spent summers in Ithaca, New York, with his father and grandparents.
He attended
Hamilton College
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, the
University of Denver
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, and the
Iowa Writers' Workshop
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. He has taught writing at the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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, and currently he is an assistant professor of English at
Colorado State University
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. He lives in
Fort Collins, Colorado
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with his wife and daughters.
Published works
Full-length poetry collections
* ''Library Of—'' (Textshop Editions, 2021)
*''Variations on Dawn and Dusk'' (Omnidawn, 2019)
* ''gentleness'' (
Tupelo Press
Tupelo Press is an American not-for-profit literary press founded in 1999. It produced its first titles in 2001, publishing poetry, fiction and non-fiction. Originally located in Dorset, Vermont, the press has since moved to North Adams, Massachu ...
, 2015)
* ''Circle's Apprentice'' (Tupelo Press, 2011)
* ''This Nest, Swift Passerine'' (Tupelo Press, 2009)
* ''Mulberry'' (Tupelo Press, 2006)
* ''Spell'' (Ahsahta Press, 2004)
* ''North True South Bright'' (
Alice James Books
Alice James Books is an American non-profit poetry press located in New Gloucester, Maine.
History and mission
"Alice James Books was founded as a co-operative press in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge, MA in 1973 by five women and two men: ...
, 2003)
Translated poetry collections
*''Wind—Mountain—Oak: The Poems of Sappho'' (Tupelo Press, forthcoming June 2023
)
*''The Thinking Root: The Poetry of the Earliest Greek Philosophy'' (
Milkweed Editions, 2023)
*''Stone-Garland: Six Poets from the Greek Lyric Tradition'' (Milkweed Editions, 2020)
Books
* ''Of Silence and Song'' (
Milkweed Editions, 2017)
* ''An Impenetrable Screen of Purest Sky'' (
Coffee House Press
Coffee House Press is a nonprofit independent press based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The press’s goal is to "produce books that celebrate imagination, innovation in the craft of writing, and the many authentic voices of the American experience ...
, 2013)
* ''A Whaler’s Dictionary'' (Milkweed Editions, 2008)
* ''Wonderful Investigations: Essays, Meditations, Tales'' (Milkweed Editions, 2012)
* ''A Brighter Word Than Bright: Keats at Work'' (Muse Books, 2013)
Book-length collaborative projects
* ''Conversities'' (with Srikanth Reddy) (1913 Press, 2012)
* ''Work from Memory'' (with Matthew Goulish) (Ahsahta Press, 2012)
Chapbooks
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* ''Sleep/Echo/Song'' (Wintered Press, 2006)
References
Sources
Library of Congress Online Catalog
External links
''The Offending Adam'' > Dan Beachy-Quick & Srikanth Reddy from ''Canto''Beachy-Quick reading at Northwestern University's 2nd Annual Spring Writers' Festival, 2009Tupelo Press > Author Page > Dan Beachy-Quick
*
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Poets from Colorado
University of Denver alumni
Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni
Colorado State University faculty
Writers from Fort Collins, Colorado
Living people
1973 births
21st-century American poets