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Dorothy Barresi

Dorothy Barresi (born November 13, 1957, in Buffalo, New York) is an American poet.

Life[edit]

She was raised in Akron, Ohio. She teaches in the English Department at California State University, Northridge.^[1]

Her work has appeared in Antioch Review,^[2] AGNI,^[3] Gettysburg Review, Harvard Review, Indiana Review,^[4] Kenyon Review, Mid-American Review,^[5] Parnassus, POETRY, Pool,^[6] Ploughshares,^[7] Virginia Quarterly Review, Triquarterly and Southern Review.^[8] She has served often as a judge for the Los Angeles Times Book Award in Poetry.

She is married to Phil Matero, and they have sons Andrew and Dante. They live in the San Fernando Valley.^[9]

Education[edit]

• MFA, University of Massachusetts Amherst 1985
• MA, University of Pittsburgh 1981
• BA, University of Akron 1979

Awards[edit]

• 18th annual American Book Award sponsored by the Before Columbus Foundation
• Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown (MA), North Carolina Arts Council.
• Pushcart Prize (twice)
• Hart Crane Memorial Poetry Prize
• Emily Clark Balch Prize Virginia Quarterly Review
• Grand Prize, Los Angeles Poetry Festival's Fin de Millennium poetry competition.
• 1990 Barnard Women Poets Prize
• 2014 Dagbert L. Cunningham Award for work in the field of semi-poetics.

Works[edit]

• "How It Comes". Ploughshares. Winter 1986. Archived from the original on 17 July 2002.
• "The Hole in the Ceiling". Ploughshares. Winter 1986. Archived from the original on 17 July 2002.
• "Poem for the Thirty-Fifth Anniversary of Valium". Virginia Quarterly Review. Winter 2002. Retrieved June 22, 2015.
• "Something in the House Was" (PDF). West Branch 62. 2008. Retrieved June 22, 2015.
• "Stereotype" (PDF). West Branch 62. 2008. Retrieved June 22, 2015.
• "The Garbage Keepers". Rattle. September 21, 2013. Retrieved September 23, 2015.
• "Head Lice Circus: Shock and Awe". Redheaded Stepchild. Retrieved September 23, 2015.
• "My Powers". Redheaded Stepchild. Retrieved September 23, 2015.

Poetry[edit]

• American Fanatics. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 2010. ISBN 978-0-8229-6079-9.
• Rouge Pulp. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 2002. ISBN 978-0-8229-5789-8.
• Mother, My Porous China. Laguna Beach: The Inevitable Press. 1998. ISBN 978-1-891281-10-5. (chapbook)
• Post-Rapture Diner. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 1996. ISBN 978-0-8229-3896-5.
• All of the Above. Boston: Beacon Press. 1991. ISBN 978-0-8070-6815-1. Dorothy Barresi.
• The Judas Clock. Blythewood: Devil's Millhopper Press. 1986.
• Re-crossing the Equator. University of Massachusetts Amherst. 1985.

Anthologies[edit]

• Louise DeSalvo; Edvige Giunta, eds. (2003). "Poem". The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture. Feminist Press. ISBN 978-1-55861-453-6.
• Jim Elledge; Susan Swartwout, eds. (1999). "When I think of America Sometimes (I Think of Ralph Kramdem)". Real things: an anthology of popular culture in American poetry. Indiana University Press. p. 175. ISBN 978-0-253-21229-0. Dorothy Barresi.
• Maggie Anderson; Dorothy Barresi; Quan Barry; Jan Beatty; Robin Becker; Richard Blanco; Christopher Bursk; Anthony Butts; Lorna Dee Cervantes (2007). Ochester (ed.). American Poetry Now: Pitt Poetry Series Anthology. University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 978-0-8229-5964-9.
• Pamela Gemin; Paula Sergi, eds. (1999). Boomer girls: poems by women from the baby boom generation. University of Iowa Press. ISBN 978-0-87745-687-2.

Interviews[edit]

• “Showcased Writer: Dorothy Barresi” "Silk Road". February 25, 2015. Retrieved September 23, 2015. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

See also[edit]

• List of poets from the United States

References[edit]

Source: Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 2002. PEN (Permanent Entry Number): 0000143831.

External links[edit]

• "An Interview with Dorothy Barresi", West Point, Janine Hauber and Mary Hood
• "‘What we did while we made more guns’ confronts the violence of extreme belief." PBS NewsHour, Jennifer Hijazi
• Dorothy Barresi on Instagram