David Dodd Lee (born 1959) is an American poet, editor, and educator.

Biography

David Dodd Lee grew up in Michigan. He earned his undergraduate degree in painting and art history in 1986 and the MFA degree in creative writing in 1993, both from

Western Michigan University Western Michigan University (Western Michigan, Western or WMU) is a Public university, public research university in Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States. It was initially established as Western State Normal School in 1903 by Governor Aaron T. B ...

. He is also a painter and collage artist. He is currently a professor of creative writing at Indiana University at South Bend and lives on the banks of the St. Joseph River in northern Indiana.

Poetry and editing

Lee is the author of eleven full-length books of poems and a chapbook. He has published poems in many literary journals, including ''

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'', and '' West Branch''. Lee is the director of 42 Miles Press, which is based in the Department of English at

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. He serves as the judge for the annual 42 Miles Press Poetry Award. Winners of the book award include Mary Ann Samyn, Carrie Oeding, Erica Bernheim, Bill Rasmovicz, Tracey Knapp, Betsy Andrews, Kimberly Lambright, and Nate Pritts. Lee has twice served as the editor of ''SHADE'', an annual anthology published b
Four Way Books
and the former poetry editor of ''

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''. In addition, he has guest edited recent editions o
''The Laurel Review''
(where he is an active contributing editor) and ''Passages North''. He is also the editor of ''The Other Life, The Selected Poems of Herbert Scott'' (

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, 2010). Together with Donna Munro, he was editor of Half Moon Bay poetry chapbooks, which published titles by

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and Hugh Seidman, among others. David Dodd Lee has published two books of erasure poems derived from the poetry of

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. Ashbery was receptive to this venture and wrote a blurb for the second book, ''And Others, Vaguer Presences'' (2017).

Bibliography

Poetry

* ''Downsides of Fish Culture''
New Issues Press
1997) * ''Wilderness'' (March Street Press 2000) * ''Arrow Pointing North'' (Four Way Books 2002) * ''Abrupt Rural'' (New Issues Press 2004) * ''The Nervous Filaments'' (Four Way Books 2010) * ''Orphan, Indiana'' (University of Akron Press 2010) * ''Sky Booths in the Breath Somewhere,: the Ashbery Erasure Poems'' (BlazeVOX 2010) * ''The Coldest Winter On Earth'' ( Marick Press 2012) * ''Animalities'' (Four Way Books 2014) * ''And Others, Vaguer Presences: A Book of Ashbery Erasure Poems'' (BlazeVOX 2017) * ''Unlucky Animals, Erasures, Dictionary Sonnets, and Collages'' (Wolfson Press, 2018)

Anthologies

* ''Shade 2004'', Editor (Four Way Books, 2004) * ''Shade 2006'', Editor (Four Way Books, 2006) * ''The Other Life: Selected Poems of Herbert Scott'', Editor (Carnegie Mellon, 2010)

References

External links

42 Miles Press

David Dodd Lee's "Postcard: Cape May" in ''Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts''
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David Dodd Lee's Blog

* http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/449902-Fiction_Book_Reviews_2_22_2010.php Review of The Nervous Filaments in Publishers Weekly * http://www.kenyonreview.org/2012/11/erasure-collaborative-interview/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Lee, David Dodd 20th-century American poets Living people 1959 births Indiana University South Bend faculty Place of birth missing (living people) Western Michigan University alumni 21st-century American poets