Dionisio D. Martinez Explained

Dionisio D. Martinez (born 7 April 1956), is a Cuban-born poet who grew up speaking Spanish, raised first in Spain, then in the United States.^[1]

His work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, Georgia Review, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review,^[2] New Republic, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Virginia Quarterly Review.^[3]

He lives in Tampa, Florida.

Awards

• 1993 Whiting Award
• 1997 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
• 1998 Guggenheim Fellowship^[4]
• 1999 National Poetry Series, for Climbing Back

Works

Books

• Book: Dancing at the Chelsea . State Street Press. 1992. (chapbook)
• Book: History as a Second Language . Ohio State University Press. 1993. 978-0-8142-0592-1 .
• Book: Bad Alchemy . registration . W.W. Norton & Company. 1995. 978-0-393-31531-8 .
• Book: Climbing Back . W.W. Norton & Company . 2000 . 978-0-393-05006-6 . registration .

Poems

• "Belated Valentine for Alina", Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 1995
• "Rest before you sleep", Poetry (September 2008)
• "Tipping over the actuarial tables", Poetry Foundation

See also

• Cuban American literature
• List of Cuban-American writers

External links

• Profile at The Whiting Foundation

Notes and References

1. Ramazani, Jahan, Richard Ellman and Robert O'Clair, The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Volume 2: Contemporary Poetry, third edition, 2003, p 1030, New York: W.W. Norton & Co.
2. Web site: The Kenyon Review . 2009-09-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080827225651/http://www.kenyonreview.org/issues/sf97/authors.php . 2008-08-27 . dead .
3. Web site: Dionisio D. Martinez.
4. Web site: John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Dionisio D. Martínez.