Donald Dunbar (born 1983) is an American
poet
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. He was raised in
Ann Arbor, Michigan
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and earned his undergraduate degree at the
University of Wisconsin, Madison
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. After completing his MFA in Poetry at the
University of Arizona in Tucson, Dunbar lived alone at a cabin in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and travelled through Western Europe, living in Germany and Portugal.
He now lives in
Portland, Oregon
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where he co-curates the reading series If Not For Kidnap
and teaches at the
Oregon Culinary Institute.
His collection "Eyelid Lick" was awarded the Fence Modern Poets Series Prize,
[ and has been described as "being like given a driving tour through someone’s dream, and the dream is continually re-centering and referring back to itself,"]
Early life and education
He was raised in the American Midwest and studied for an MFA at University of Arizona
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.
Works
Books
*
Safe Word
' (Gramma Poetry, 2017)
*
Eyelid Lick
' (Fence Books, 2012)
Poems and Broadsides
Berlitz
(Black Lemon, 2012)
*
Untitled Poem
' (PEN America, 2012)
*
' (Octopus Magazine, 2013)
*
Click Click
' (Gold Wake Press, 2010)
*''You Are So Pretty'' (Scantily Clad Press, 2009)
References
External links
Interviews
Harriet blog (by Hannah Gamble)BOMB Magazine (by Jonathan Aprea)
*
Versindaba (by Louis Esterhuizen)
"Psychedelic Trips Gnosis, Creation, Myths, Death Oblivion Relativism," Poor Claudia (by Travis Meyer)Art Career Project
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Poets from Oregon
1983 births
Living people
University of Arizona alumni
Writers from Portland, Oregon
21st-century American poets
Writers from Ann Arbor, Michigan