Dorothy Barresi Explained

Dorothy Barresi
Occupation:	Poet
Language:	English
Birth Date:	13 November 1957
Birth Place:	Buffalo, New York
Period:	Contemporary
Genre:	Poetry
Notableworks:	American Fanatics, Rouge Pulp, Post-Rapture Diner, All of the Above
Spouse:	Phil Matero
Children:	Dante and Andrew
Awards:	Barnard New Women Poet Prize, Pushcart Prize, American Book Award, NEA Fellowship

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

Life

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

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

Awards

• 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

• https://web.archive.org/web/20020717124429/http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleid=2203 . How It Comes . 17 July 2002. Ploughshares. Winter 1986.
• https://web.archive.org/web/20020717124539/http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleid=2204 . The Hole in the Ceiling . 17 July 2002. Ploughshares. Winter 1986.
• Poem for the Thirty-Fifth Anniversary of Valium . Virginia Quarterly Review . Winter 2002 . June 22, 2015 .
• Something in the House Was . West Branch 62 . 2008 . June 22, 2015.
• Stereotype . West Branch 62 . 2008 . June 22, 2015.
• The Garbage Keepers . Rattle . September 21, 2013 . September 23, 2015 .
• Head Lice Circus: Shock and Awe . Redheaded Stepchild . September 23, 2015.
• My Powers . Redheaded Stepchild . September 23, 2015.

Poetry

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

Anthologies

• Book: Poem. https://books.google.com/books?id=KiPwgjlN_30C&q=Dorothy+Barresi&pg=PA225. The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture. Louise DeSalvo. Louise DeSalvo. Edvige Giunta. Edvige Giunta. Feminist Press. 2003. 978-1-55861-453-6 .
• Book: When I think of America Sometimes (I Think of Ralph Kramdem). Real things: an anthology of popular culture in American poetry. registration. 175. Dorothy Barresi.. Jim Elledge . Susan Swartwout. Indiana University Press. 1999. 978-0-253-21229-0 .
• Book: American Poetry Now: Pitt Poetry Series Anthology. Maggie Anderson . Dorothy Barresi . Quan Barry . Jan Beatty . Robin Becker . Richard Blanco . Christopher Bursk . Anthony Butts . Lorna Dee Cervantes . Ochester. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2007. 978-0-8229-5964-9 .
• Book: Boomer girls: poems by women from the baby boom generation. registration. Pamela Gemin . Paula Sergi. University of Iowa Press. 1999. 978-0-87745-687-2 .

Interviews

• “Showcased Writer: Dorothy Barresi” Silk Road . February 25, 2015 . September 23, 2015 .

See also

• List of poets from the United States

References

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

External links

• "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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Dorothy Barresi | Directory of Writers | Poets & Writers. 7 June 1996 . pw.org. 2014-12-03.
2. The Antioch Review. Kingsley, J.D.. The Antioch Review. 2003. 61. Antioch Review, Incorporated. 0003-5769. 2014-12-03.
3. Web site: AGNI Online: Author Dorothy Barresi. web.bu.edu. 2014-12-03.
4. Book: Indiana Review. 2003. 25. Indiana University Board of Trustees. 0738-386X. 2014-12-03.
5. Book: Mid-American Review. Bowling Green State University. Dept. of English. Bowling Green State University. Creative Writing Program. 1997. 18. Popular Press. 0747-8895. 2014-12-03.
6. Web site: POOL. poolpoetry.com. 2014-12-03.
7. Web site: Show Article. pshares.org. 2014-12-03.
8. Book: Southern Poetry Review. 1986. v. 26-27. 0038-447X. 2014-12-03.
9. http://www.poetrymagazine.com/archives/2005/Spr005/Features/barresi.htm