Dorianne Laux

Dorianne Laux (born January 10, 1952 Augusta, Maine) is an American poet.

Biography

Laux worked as a sanatorium cook, a gas station manager, and a maid before receiving a B.A. in English from Mills College in 1988. ^[1]

Laux taught at the University of Oregon.^[2] She is a professor at North Carolina State University’s creative writing program, and the MFA in Writing Program at Pacific University.^[3] She is also a contributing editor at The Alaska Quarterly Review.

Her work appeared in American Poetry Review, Five Points, Kenyon Review, Ms., Orion, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner,^[4] Southern Review, TriQuarterly, Zyzzyva.^[5]

Laux lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with her husband, poet Joseph Millar and has a daughter, Tristem.

Awards

• Pushcart Prize
• two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts ^[6]
• The Best American Poetry 1999
• The Best American Poetry 2006
• List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2001
• Oregon Book Award for Facts about the Moon, selected by Ai ^[7]
• 2006 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize shortlisted for Facts about the Moon
• National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for What We Carry

Works

• "APHASIA"; "GRAVEYARD AT HURD'S GULCH", Web Del Sol
• "GIRL IN THE DOORWAY"; "CROSS COUNTRY"; "SUNDAY"; "WHAT COULD HAPPEN", Web Del Sol
• "ABSCHIEDS SYMPHONY"; "HOW IT WILL HAPPEN, WHEN"; "DEATH COMES TO ME AGAIN, A GIRL", Web Del Sol
• "MUSIC IN THE MORNING"; "PRAYER"; "FIRESTARTER"; "THE SHIPFITTER'S WIFE", Web Del Sol
• "What Would You Give Up?"; "Dump Run"; "Fog"; "Emily Said"; "Mugged By Poetry", Cortland Review, Spring 2009
• "Facts About the Moon", How a Poem Happens, February 2009
• "Roots", Orion, May/June 2008
• "Laundry And Cigarettes"; "On The Back Porch", Reading Between A&B
• "Incident with a Kiwi", Ward 6 Review

• Awake. introduced by Philip Levine. BOA Editions. 1990. ISBN 9780918526762.  re-issued by Eastern Washington University Press
• What We Carry. BOA Editions. 1994. ISBN 9781880238073. 
• Smoke. BOA Editions. 2000. ISBN 9781880238868. http://books.google.com/books?id=iL-hfr6TgeQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:Dorianne+inauthor:Laux&ei=4F3TSrTuFI3SM-3r-IcO#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
• Facts about the Moon. W. W. Norton & Company. 2005. ISBN 9780393329629. 
• Superman: The Chapbook Red Dragonfly Press January 2008 ^[8][9]
• "Dark Charms" Red Dragonfly Press 2010 http://www.reddragonflypress.org/music/3108
• The Book of Men W.W. Norton February 2011 http://books.wwnorton.com/books/The-Book-of-Men/

Anthologies

• Best of The American Poetry Review
• The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry
• twice in Best American Poetry.

Ploughshares^{[dead link]}

• "Life Is Beautiful". Ploughshares. Winter 2000. http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=4985. 
• "Oh, The Water". Ploughshares. Winter 2000. http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=4986. 
• "Heart". Ploughshares. Winter 2000. http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=4984. 
• "Family Stories". Ploughshares. Spring 1998. http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=4422. 
• "Trying to Raise the Dead". Ploughshares. Spring 1998. http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=4423. 

Editor

• Kim Addonizio, Dorianne Laux (1997). The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry. W.W. Norton. ISBN 9780393316544. http://books.google.com/books?id=skuaq3033OoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:Dorianne+inauthor:Laux&ei=4F3TSrTuFI3SM-3r-IcO#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 

References

1. ^ http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/742
2. ^ http://www.uoregon.edu/~crwrweb/faculty/doriannelaux.htm
3. ^ Pacific University MFA Faculty
4. ^ http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/prairie_schooner/v080/80.2laux.html
5. ^ http://www.pw.org/content/dorianne_laux_1
6. ^ http://arts.endow.gov/features/Writers/writersCMS/writer.php?id=01_18
7. ^ http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/742
8. ^ http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/742
9. ^ http://www.reddragonflypress.org/reviews/1908

External links

• Academy of American Poets Page
• Collection of some of Laux's poems
• Audio: Dorianne Laux reads Facts About the Moon
• Interview in SmokeLong Quarterly, June 25, 2009
• Nearly Free, Woman in a Bar, short stories in SmokeLong Quarterly
• "Exclusive Interview With Poet Dorianne Laux", Poetic Asides, February 27, 2008
• "A Conversation with Dorianne Laux", Willow Springs, April 19, 2008
• "Author's blog"
• "Dorianne Laux", Penn Sound

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