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Ben Doller

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Ben Doller
Born1973
Warsaw, New York
NationalityAmerican
Alma materState University of New York at Oswego,
West Virginia University,
Iowa Writers' Workshop
GenrePoetry

Ben Doller (previously Doyle) (born 1973 Warsaw, New York) is an American poet and writer.[1]

Life

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Ben Doller is the author of several books of poetry. He currently teaches at University of California, San Diego.[2]

He graduated from the State University of New York at Oswego, and West Virginia University.

He received his MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he was awarded a Teaching-Writing Fellowship.[3]

Doller has taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, West Virginia University, Denison University, Antioch University,[4] and in 2007, was distinguished visiting professor at Boise State University.[1]

He was formerly a co-editor of the Kuhl House Contemporary Poetry Series at the University of Iowa Press (until 2010), and vice-editor and designer of 1913 a journal of forms, and 1913 Press.[citation needed]

He read at AWP 2009.[5][failed verification]

He lives in San Diego with his partner & collaborator, the poet & writer Sandra Doller (formerly Miller). In 2007, the two merged their last names: Doyle + Miller = Doller.[6][7]

Awards

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Works

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  • "taxes"; "Oust Manacle"; "Same Problem", Coconut 10, October 2007
  • "big deference betwixt throwing things and throwing things away"; "A POINTING HABIT"; "NICETIES"; "CHICKENSTRIPS", La Petite Zine
  • "Daisy". Ploughshares. Winter 2008–09. Archived from the original on January 28, 2016.
  • Added to The &NOW Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing. &NOW Books, 2013.[8]

Poetry books

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Anthology

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Poetry by Laurel Ann Bogen, Jericho Brown, and Ben Doller, with music by the What's Next Ensemble". Eventbrite. Archived from the original on January 22, 2013.
  2. ^ "Ben Doller". UC San Diego.
  3. ^ "About Ben Doller | Academy of American Poets".
  4. ^ "Antioch University Los Angeles". Archived from the original on May 20, 2009. Retrieved June 15, 2009.
  5. ^ "2009 Things To Do Off-Site". The Association of Writers & Writing Programs. Archived from the original on February 14, 2008.
  6. ^ "The Dollers Read!". csusmcreativewritingcommunity.blogspot.com. Archived from the original on June 15, 2009. Retrieved January 26, 2022.
  7. ^ "coconut ten notes". www.coconutpoetry.org. Retrieved January 10, 2024.
  8. ^ Schneiderman, Davis (2012). The &NOW Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing. &NOW Books. ISBN 978-0982315644.
  9. ^ http://www.tinhouse.com/books/catalog_s_c_poems_re.htm [dead link]
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