Matt Donovan (poet) explained

Matt Donovan (born Ohio) is an American poet and nonfiction writer. A native of Hudson, Ohio, Donovan graduated from Vassar College with a BA, from Lancaster University with an MA, and from New York University with an MFA. He teaches at Santa Fe University of Art and Design.^[1]

Life and career

He is the author of two collections of poetry – Vellum (Mariner, 2007) and the chapbook Ten Burnt Lakes (Tupelo Press, forthcoming 2017) – as well as the collection of essays, A Cloud of Unusual Size and Shape: Meditations on Ruin and Redemption (Trinity University Press, 2016). His work appeared in AGNI,^[2] Blackbird,^[3] Poetry,^[4] The Kenyon Review,^[5] The Gettysburg Review,^[6] The Threepenny Review,^[7] and The Virginia Quarterly Review,^[8] among others literary journals.

He is the recipient of a Rome Prize in Literature, a Whiting Award^[9] a Pushcart Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature, a Lannan Writing Residency Fellowship, the Larry Levis Reading Prize from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Creative Capital award.^{[10] [11]}

He is currently collaborating on the chamber opera Inheritance with his wife, artist Ligia Bouton, as well as the soprano Susan Narucki, and composer Lei Liang.^[12]

Works

Books

• Book: Vellum. registration. Matt Donovan (poet).. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2007. 978-0-618-82212-6.
• A Cloud of Unusual Size and Shape: Meditations on Ruin and Redemption. Trinity University Press. 2016.
• Ten Burnt Lakes. Tupelo Press. Forthcoming 2017.

Essays

• Fall 2012 . Villa of the Mysteries, Pompeii . The Threepenny Review . 131 .

External links

• www.mattdonovanwriting.com).
• Profile at The Whiting Foundation
• News: Writing in the Margins. The New York Times. James Longenbach. July 22, 2007.
• http://coldfrontmag.com/tag/matt-donovan

Notes and References

1. Web site: Creative Writing Department Faculty | Writing Professors | Santa Fe University of Art and Design . 2011-09-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110903052455/http://www.santafeuniversity.edu/ProgramsOfStudy/CreativeWriting/Faculty.aspx . 2011-09-03 . dead .
2. Web site: AGNI Online: Author Matt Donovan . 2011-09-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110926174213/http://www.bu.edu/agni/authors/M/Matt-Donovan.html . 2011-09-26 . dead .
3. Web site: Matt Donovan, Blackbird. blackbird.vcu.edu.
4. Web site: March 2003 | Poetry Magazine. September 27, 2021. Poetry Foundation.
5. http://www.kenyonreview.org/issues/summer11/index.php{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
6. Web site: Gettysburg Review - Past Selections . 2011-09-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120415164308/http://www.gettysburgreview.com/selections/past_selections/index.dot?inode=2586521&pageTitle=%E2%80%9CNight%20Train%E2%80%9D:%20A%20Listener%E2%80%99s%20Guide&crumbTitle=%E2%80%9CNight%20Train%E2%80%9D:%20A%20Listener%E2%80%99s%20Guide&author=Matt%20Donovan&story=true . 2012-04-15 . dead .
7. Web site: Threepenny: Issue 75, Fall 1998. www.threepennyreview.com.
8. Web site: VQR » Matt Donovan . 2011-09-27 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120406224537/http://www.vqronline.org/author/5830/matt-donovan/ . 2012-04-06 .
9. Web site: Matt Donovan. www.whiting.org.
10. Web site: Matthew Donovan's "Vellum" selected for VCU's Levis Reading Prize – VCU News Center . www.news.vcu.edu . 6 June 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100611171605/http://www.news.vcu.edu/news/Matthew_Donovans_Vellum_selected_for_VCUs_Levis_Reading_Prize . 11 June 2010 . dead.
11. Web site: Creative Capital - Investing in Artists who Shape the Future. creative-capital.org. 2016-11-07.
12. Web site: 'Inheritance': A haunting chamber opera debuts at UC San Diego's Experimental Theater in La Jolla. 2018-10-24. La Jolla Light. en-US. 2020-02-18.