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. His other books include ''A Whaler’s Dictionary'' (
Milkweed Editions), a collection of essays about ''
Moby Dick.'' His honors include a
Lannan Foundation Residency and a
Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...
.
His poems have appeared widely in literary journals, including ''
The Boston Review
''Boston Review'' is an American quarterly political and literary magazine. It publishes political, social, and historical analysis, literary and cultural criticism, book reviews, fiction, and poetry, both online and in print. Its signature form ...
,
The New Republic, Fence,
Poetry,
Chicago Review
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, VOLT,
The Colorado Review,
Paris Review'', and ''
New American Writing'', and in anthologies including ''
Best American Poetry.'' His essays and reviews have appeared in ''
The New York Times,
The Southern Review, The Poker,
Rain Taxi, 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, the
University of Denver, and the
Iowa Writers' Workshop. He has taught writing at the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and currently he is an assistant professor of English at
Colorado State University
Colorado State University (Colorado State or CSU) is a public land-grant research university in Fort Collins, Colorado. It is the flagship university of the Colorado State University System. Colorado State University is classified among "R1: ...
. He lives in
Fort Collins, Colorado
Fort Collins is a home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Larimer County, Colorado
Larimer County is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 census, the population was 359 ...
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, 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, 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, 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