Donna Stonecipher Explained

Donna Stonecipher
Occupation:	Poet
Nationality:	American
Education:	Iowa Writers' Workshop (MFA) University of Georgia (PhD)

Donna Stonecipher is an American poet.

Life

She grew up in Seattle and Tehran,^[1] and lived in Prague from 1994 to 1998. She graduated from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, with an MFA in 2001. She completed her PhD in English and Creative Writing at the University of Georgia.

She has published five books of poetry and one of prose, as well as several translations. Her poems have appeared in Paris Review, Denver Quarterly, the Indiana Review, New American Writing, SAND Journal^[2] and Conjunctions.

She translates from French and German. Her translations have appeared in Circumference, Action Yes, and chicagopostmodernpoetry.

The New York Times named her 2018 collection Transaction Histories one of the 10 best poetry books of the year.^[3]

In 2020, her book Model City sold hundreds of copies^[4] after an enthusiastic review in Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast.^[5] A bilingual version, translated in French by Jérémy Victor Robert, was published in February 2021.^[6]

Her 2023 collection The Ruins of Nostalgia was listed by NPR as a best book of the year in their "Books We Love" feature. ^[7]

She has lived in Berlin, Germany^[8] since 2004.

Awards

• 2015 NEA Translation Grant
• 2007 National Poetry Series
• 2002 Contemporary Poetry Series

Works

Collections

• Book: The Reservoir . University of Georgia Press . 2002 . 978-0-8203-2463-0 .
• Book: Souvenir de Constantinople . Instance Press. 2007. 978-0-9679854-5-9 .
• Book: The Cosmopolitan . Coffee House Press. 2008. 978-1-56689-221-6 .
• Book: Model City . Shearsman. 2015. 978-1-84861-388-1 .
• Book: Transaction Histories . University of Iowa Press. 2018. 978-1-60938-602-3 .
• Book: Cité modèle . French, English. Jérémy Victor Robert . joca seria. 2021. 978-2-84809-346-8 .
• Book: The Ruins of Nostalgia . Wesleyan University Press. 2023. 978-0-81950-084-7 .

Poems

• "Inlay (Kafka)", Gut Cult Issue 7
• "White Mouth", Conjunctions
• "Model City", Paris Review

Translations

• Book: études. Friederike Mayröcker. Seagull Press. 2020. 978-0-857426567.
• Book: Ascent. Ludwig Hohl. Black Square Editions. 2012. 978-0986005015.
• "My Private Leningrad", No Man's Land, Andrej Glusgold
• "Landscape", No Man's Land, Andrej Glusgold
• Book: New European poets. Wayne Miller . Kevin Prufer. Graywolf Press. 2008. 978-1-55597-492-3.

Criticism

• Book: Prose Poetry and the City . Parlor Press. 2018. 978-1602359994 . ^[9]
• "On Cole Swensen’s Ours", Jacket 26, 2008

Anthologies

• Book: New Voices: Contemporary Poetry from the United States . H.L. Hix . H.L. Hix . . 2008. 978-0-9544257-9-1.

Further reading

• "Donna Stonecipher, Global Flaneur", hyperallergic.com, 2018
• "The Limits of Cosmopolitanism", Boston Review, 2019
• "This Is Not an Essay on Poetry of the Past 20 Years", Public Books, 2020
• Stonecipher et ses ballades dans la ville", Télérama, 2021

External links

• "Emmanuel Moses (Donna Stonecipher, translator)", Chicago Poet Modern Poetry

Notes and References

1. Web site: Donna Stonecipher. 2021-03-02. www.jocaseria.fr.
2. Web site: Issue 18. SAND Journal. en-US. 2019-01-30.
3. News: The Best Poetry of 2018. The New York Times. 10 December 2018. Orr. David.
4. News: Saunders. Tristram Fane. 2020-10-13. If you want poetry without the pretension, listen to Frank Skinner. en-GB. The Telegraph. 2021-03-02. 0307-1235.
5. Web site: 2020-05-04. Donna Stonecipher - Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast. live. 2021-03-02. Planet Radio. https://web.archive.org/web/20211203225356/https://planetradio.co.uk/podcasts/frank-skinner-poetry-podcast/listen/2029214/ . 2021-12-03 .
6. Web site: Charlotte. Fauve. 2021-02-25. Donna Stonecipher et ses ballades dans la ville. live. 2021-03-02. Télérama. fr. https://web.archive.org/web/20210228013702/https://www.telerama.fr/livre/donna-stonecipher-et-ses-ballades-dans-la-ville-6824774.php . 2021-02-28 .
7. News: Books We Love .
8. Web site: Events | College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | The University of Iowa . Clas.uiowa.edu . 2009-03-25 . 2011-09-29.
9. Book: Stonecipher, Donna . Prose Poetry and the City . 2018 . Parlor Press . 978-1-60235-999-4 . en.