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| Poet Dan Tobin |
Daniel Tobin is the author of seven books of poems, Where the World is Made (University Press of New England, 1999), Double Life (Louisiana State University Press, 2004), The Narrows (Four Way Books, 2005), Second Things (Four Way Books, 2008), Belated Heavens
(Four Way Books, 2010), The Net(forthcoming, Four Way Books, 2014), and
From Nothing (forthcoming, Four Way Books, 2016). Among his awards are
the Massachusetts Book Award in Poetry, "The Discovery/The Nation
Award," The Robert Penn Warren Award, the Greensboro Review Prize, the
Robert Frost Fellowship, the Katherine Bakeless Nason Prize, a creative
writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a
fellowship in poetry from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. The Narrows
was a featured book on Poetry Daily, as well as a finalist for the
ForeWord Magazine Poetry Book Award. His poems have appeared nationally
and internationally in such journals as The Nation, The New Republic, The Harvard Review, Poetry, The American Scholar, The Paris Review, The Southern Review, The Sewanee Review, The Hudson Review, The Kenyon Review, Image, The Times Literary Supplement (England), Stand (England), Agenda (England), Descant (Canada), and Poetry Ireland Review. His critical study, Passage to the Center: Imagination and the Sacred in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney, came out to wide praise from the University of Kentucky Press in 1999. His recent book of essays, Awake in America, appeared from the University of Notre Dame Press in 2011. Tobin has also edited The Book of Irish American Poetry from the Eighteenth Century to the Present (University of Notre Dame Press, 2007), Light in the Hand: The Selected Poems Lola Ridge (Quale Press, 2007), and (with Pimone Triplett) Poet’s Work, Poet’s Play: Essays on the Practice and the Art (University of Michigan Press, 2007). His work has been anthologized in Hammer and Blaze, The Bread Loaf Anthology of New American Poets, Poetry Daily Essentials 2007, Broken Land: Poems of Brooklyn, Third Rail: The Poetry of Rock and Roll, The Norton Introduction to Poetry,
and elsewhere. He has also published numerous essays on modern and
contemporary poetry in the United States and abroad. He teaches in the
Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing at Emerson College in
Boston. He has a new collection of poetry coming out in the spring of 2014 The Net.