Dara Barrois/Dixon
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Dara Barrois/Dixon | |
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| Born | December 30, 1949 Hôtel-Dieu, New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Spouse | James Tate |
| Children | Emily Pettit |
Dara Barrois/Dixon (Dara Wier) (born December 30, 1949)[1] is an American poet and author.She has received awards from the Lannan Foundation, American Poetry Review, The Poetry Center Book Award, Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts and Massachusetts Cultural Council.[citation needed] She’s been poet-in-residence at the University of Montana, University of Texas Austin, Emory University, and the University of Utah; she was the 2005 Louis Rubin chair at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia. She lives and works in factory hollow in Western Massachusetts.[1] Emily Pettit and Guy Gerard Pettit are her daughter and son.
Biography
Barrois/Dixon was born in Hôtel-Dieu,
She has lived in Louisiana, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Ohio, Texas, Alabama, New Mexico, Colorado, Montana, and Massachusetts, and spent time in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and Mississippi. She writes poetry, prose and a column, "INSIDE UNDIVIDED", on chance, fate and context, from 2010 to 2015 for Flying Object's (arts non-profit) website, and from 2015 on the literary magazine jubilat's website. She has taught poetry workshops and seminars at Bowling Green University, University of Pittsburgh, Hollins University, Emory University, University of Montana, University of Massachusetts Amherst and for summer or winter workshops in Aspen, Key West, Santa Fe, Virginia, Bennington, and the University of Massachusetts Juniper Workshops (which she co-founded in 2003 as a part of the Juniper Initiative which she co-directs).
Barrois/Dixon was married to poet James Tate until his death in 2015.[2] Her daughter from a previous marriage is poet Emily Pettit.[3]They often work together.[4]
Work
Dara Barrois/Dixon has published several books and her work has also been included in recent volumes of Pushcart Prize Anthology and
Bibliography
- Blood, Hook & Eye, ISBN 0-292-70720-7
- The 8-Step Grapevine, ISBN 0-915604-38-8
- All You Have in Common, CMU, 1984 ISBN 0-88748-005-5
- The Book of Knowledge, CMU, 1987 ISBN 0-88748-067-5
- Blue for the Plough, CMU, 1990 ISBN 0-88748-137-X
- Our Master Plan, CMU, 1999 ISBN 0-88748-294-5
- Voyages in English, CMU, 2001 ISBN 0-88748-351-8
- Hat on a Pond, Verse Press, 2001 ISBN 0-9703672-6-0
- Reverse Rapture, Verse Press, 2005 ISBN 0-9746353-4-0
- Remnants of Hannah, Wave Books, 2006 ISBN 978-1-933517-08-7
- Selected Poems, Wave Books, 2009 ISBN 978-1-933517-38-4
- A Civilian's Journal of the War Years, The Song Cave, 2011
- You Good Thing, Wave Books, 2013 ISBN 978-1-933517-67-4
- In the Still of the Night, Wave Books, 2017 ISBN 978-1-940696-57-7
- I Would Like to Return the Scarf to You in Good Condition, Small Anchor Books, forthcoming
- You Stare as if Staring Were the Start of All Stars, Pilot Books, forthcoming
- The Usual Ratio Between Banality and Wonder, Rain Taxi, 2016
- In the Still of the Night, Wave Books, 2017 ISBN 9781940696577
- Tolstoy Killed Anna Karenina, Wave Books, 2022 ISBN
References
- ^ a b Poets, Academy of American. "Dara Barrois/Dixon". Poets.org. Retrieved 2024-04-16.
- ^ "Acclaimed poet, UMass professor James Tate dies at 71 | the Recorder". Archived from the original on 2015-07-09. Retrieved 2015-07-09.
- ^ "Ten Questions for Dara Barrois/Dixon". Poets & Writers. 2022-04-05. Retrieved 2024-04-16.
- ^ Mishler, Peter (2023-11-28). "Dara Barrois/Dixon on the Lived Poetry of the Late James Tate". Literary Hub. Retrieved 2024-04-16.
External links
- Dara Barrois/Dixon's author page at Wave Books
- Dara Wier's Selected Poems
- Dara Wier at The Academy of American Poets
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