Dante Micheaux
Dante Micheaux is an American poet whose work The Circus was the winner of the 2019 Four Quartets Prize, presented by the Poetry Society of America in partnership with the T. S. Eliot Foundation, having been selected by judges Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Carmen Giménez Smith and Rosanna Warren.[1] The citation for the prize stated: "How right that this poet's first name should be Dante. For his Circus is a Comedy: a savage comedy, lacerating dialects, fingering wounds, looking for loves right and wrong in the crevices of history and of humiliated bodes. ... His language exults, triumphs, and freely rummages in the treasuries of the Bible, Baudelaire, Whitman, Eliot, Baraka, and Mahalia Jackson, taking what it needs, making it his sovereign own, a wrested blessing.”[2]
Journals and anthologies in which Micheaux's poems and translations have been published include The American Poetry Review, Callaloo, Poetry, PN Review, and Tongue.[3]
Among honors he has received are a poetry prize from the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, the Oscar Wilde Award, the 2020 Ambit Magazine Poetry Prize, and fellowships from Cave Canem Foundation and The New York Times Foundation.[3][4][5]
Micheaux is director of programs at Cave Canem.[6][7]
Micheaux grew up in New Jersey, and studied at New York University, where he earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing.[8][9]
Works
[edit]- Amorous Shepherd (Sheep Meadow Press, 2010)
- Circus (Indolent Books, 2018, ISBN 978-1945023200)
References
[edit]- ^ "Dante Micheaux wins the Four Quartets Prize". Poetry Society of America. April 30, 2019. Retrieved September 8, 2024.
- ^ "Dante Micheaux wins the Four Quartets Prize". T.S. Eliot Foundation. May 1, 2019. Retrieved September 8, 2024.
- ^ a b "Dante Micheaux". Indolent Books.
- ^ "Virtual AWP in Conversation: Celebrating Black Poetry with Cave Canem, Sponsored by The Givens Foundation for African American Literature". Poets.org.
- ^ "Dante Micheaux". Cafe Oto. 2019.
- ^ "Welcome Dante Micheaux & Matthew Raybeam to the Cave Canem Team!". Cave Canem. Retrieved September 8, 2024.
- ^ China, Stacy Y. (November 27, 2023). "How Cave Canem Has Nurtured Generations of Black Poets". The New York Times.
- ^ "forecast: more quiet". pull up a chair. January 27, 2023. Retrieved September 8, 2024.
- ^ Browne, Mahogany L. (February 24, 2020). "Audre Lorde Taught Us: Dante Micheaux, Audre Lorde, and Erotic Power". Lambda Literary. Retrieved September 8, 2024.
External links
[edit]- "Q & A American Poetry: Dante Micheaux", Poetry Society of America]], 2010.
- "Sex Is More Important: A Conversation with Dante Micheaux", PEN America, July 13, 2012.