Paul Dickey (poet) explained

Paul Dickey (born 1948 in Hardtner, KS) is an American poet, author, philosophy instructor, and playwright who has published multiple books of poetry [1] [2] and a full-length play, The Good News According to St. Dude, that analyzes and dramatizes the disillusion of the 1960s youth counter-culture.[3]

Career

His poetry appears in three textbook anthologies and approximately 200 literary journals, both in print and online.[4] His ten-minute plays (or flash drama) and comedy skits have been performed onstage at the Shelterbelt Theatre in Omaha, NE,[5] and in theatres in Dover, NJ, and New York City.

Dickey has published fiction (including flash fiction), short plays, creative nonfiction, and poetry in multiple genres, including prose poetry, formal verse—both serious and comic, and free verse.[6] Of their publications for the year 2011, Mayapple Press selected Dickey's first book They Say This is How Death Came Into the World to be nominated for the National Book Award in Poetry.[7] Dickey won the 2015 Master Poet Award from the Nebraska Arts Council.[8] [9]

Michel Delville, the author of a major critical work on prose poetry, The American Prose Poem: Poetic Form and the Boundaries of Genre (University Press of Florida, 1998), said of Dickey: "Whether it’s a poem about (or around) Mark Rothko’s painting Yellow Band or a prose poem about 'Mowing the Lawn' that pauses with Husserl’s phenomenology, Dickey’s poetry is grounded in a recognition that, to quote Sherwood Anderson, 'each truth [is] a composite of a great many vague thoughts,' all equally beautiful and disturbing, somber and happy." [10] Prose poet Nin Andrews (author of twelve poetry collections) writes of Dickey's They Say This Is How Death Came into the World that it is "seductively inventive, charmingly clever and seriously witty. The pleasures offered by Paul Dickey’s quirky and irreverent meditations are utterly irresistible."

Dickey has a Master of Art’s degree from Indiana University Bloomington, in the History and Philosophy of Science. In the 1970s, while a graduate student at Wichita State University,[11] he published poetry in The Kansas Quarterly, Quartet, and Nimrod. At Wichita State, he was a student of the American-Filipino poet, novelist, and short story author Bienvenido Santos. Dickey currently teaches philosophy in Omaha, Nebraska at Metropolitan Community College (Nebraska).

Works

Books (Bibliographies)

Books (Poetry)

Books (Flash Fiction)

Books (Drama)

Anthologies

Journals -- Poetry, Fiction, Drama, and Creative Nonfiction

32 Poems, Another Chicago Review, Anti-, Apple Valley Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Cider Press Review, Chiron Review, Concho River Review, Crab Orchard Review, Cue: A Journal of Prose Poetry, diode, failbetter, The Freeman, Jelly Bucket, Laurel Review, Light (journal), I-70 Review, Linebreak, Memoir (and), Mid-American Review, The Midwest Quarterly, Nimrod, Pinyon Review, Pleiades (journal), Plume, Poet Lore, Potomac Review, Prairie Schooner, Quadrant, Rattle, Sentence, South Florida Poetry Review, and Southern Poetry Review."

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Poets & Writers Profile . 2013 . 2015-09-01 .
  2. News: Kansas Poets: Paul Dickey . 2013 . 2015-09-01 .
  3. Web site: Paul Dickey. https://web.archive.org/web/20031027102659/http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/NCW/dickey.htm. dead. 2003-10-27. Nebraska Center for Writers. Creighton University English Department.
  4. News: Arts & Humanities Livelihood . Nebraska Cultural Endowment . Erin . Sample . 2015 . 2015-09-01 .
  5. News: Shelterskelter 17 Pays Homage to Edgar Allan Poe . broadwayworld.com . October 4, 2012 . 2015-09-10 .
  6. News: Review of Dickey, They Say This is How Death Came Into the World . Maryanne . Hannan . Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics, #9 (Firewheel Editions). . 2011 .
  7. News: Poet to read work at Northwestern . . 2012 . 2015-09-01 .
  8. News: 2015 Master Poets Award . . 2015 . 2015-09-01 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20151001033907/http://www.artscouncil.nebraska.gov/news_resources/news/news.html/article/2015/04/09/2015-individual-artist-fellowship-in-literature-recipients . 2015-10-01 .
  9. News: NAC announces individual awards in Literature. 9 September 2015. Lincoln Journal Star. 11 April 2015.
  10. News: Verse Daily . 2011 . 2015-09-01 .
  11. News: Distinguished Visiting Writers Series . . February 26, 2013 . 2015-09-10.
  12. News: Poets Provide Good Summer Reads . https://web.archive.org/web/20160222084735/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-148786262.html. dead. February 22, 2016. Heather Lee . Schroeder . July 28, 2006 . The Capital Times (Madison, WI) . 2015-09-10.
  13. News: Mayapple Publisher site . 2011 . 2015-09-01.
  14. News: Review of Dickey, They Say This is How Death Came Into the World . Jerry . Bradley . Concho River Review, Vol XXV, #1 (Spring, 2011) . 2011 .
  15. News: Publisher site for Wires Over the Homeplace (link to reviews) . 2013 . 2015-09-01 .

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