Dennis Schmitz

Dennis Schmitz (August 11, 1937 - September 12, 2019) was an American poet.[1]

Life

Dennis Schmitz grew up in Dubuque, Iowa.[2] He graduated from Loras College and the University of Chicago, where he met and married Loretta D'Agostino in 1960; they have five children together. He has taught at Illinois Institute of Technology, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee[3] and California State University, Sacramento.[4] His former students include Raymond Carver,[5] Charlene Ungstad,[6] Gary Short,[7] and Gary Thompson.[8]

He opposes the death penalty and protests executions in California every time they take place.[9][10]

His work has appeared in the Alaska Quarterly Review,[11] American Poetry Review, The Nation, Paris Review,[12] the Chicago Review,[13] and Zyzzyva.[14]

He resided in Sacramento.[15]

Awards

Works

Poetry
  • Animism (Oberlin College Press, 2014)
  • The Truth Squad (Copper Canyon Press, 2002)
  • About Night: Selected and New Poems (Oberlin College Press, 1993)
  • Eden (University of Illinois Press, 1989)
  • Singing (Ecco Press, 1985)
  • String (Ecco Press, 1980)
  • Goodwill, Inc (1976)
  • Double Exposures (1971)
  • We Weep for Our Strangeness (1969)

Editor
  • The Sacramento Anthology of 100 Poems. Sacramento’s Poet Laureate Program; Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission.

Review

Schmitz is the kind of poet whose work is unknown to the general public but eagerly read by other writers in top literary magazines like Field or Antaeus. In this volume, he continues the exciting work he has already done with dramatic monologues and religious meditations set on California farms or in the construction sites, flophouses, and movie palaces of Chicago.[19]

gollark: No. I think there's .be.
gollark: I assume apio.net is already taken?
gollark: Or actually make it be an ARG.
gollark: We could make people think it's an ARG or something.
gollark: A cryptic image of a horse?

References
  1. https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/obituaries/article235221732.html
  2. Voight, Sandye (September 18, 2003). "Poet making trek back to his Dubuque roots; Schmitz will give a reading tonight at the Carnegie-Stout Library". Dubuque Telegraph - Herald. Archived from the original on October 25, 2012.
  3. Europa Publications, ed. (2003). International Who's Who in Poetry 2004. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-85743-178-0.
  4. http://www.csus.edu/pubaf/journal/fall2002/34facultyauthors.htm
  5. Carver, Raymond; Gentry, Marshall Bruce; Stull, William L (January 1990). Conversations with Raymond Carver. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 180. ISBN 978-0-87805-449-7.
  6. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304082518/http://www.blogtalkradio.com/the-jane-crown-show/blog/2008/12
  7. http://www.onlinenevada.org/Gary_Short
  8. Sklenicka, Carol. Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life. New York: Scribner, 2009
  9. http://www.lairdcarlson.com/celldoor/00302/Ains00302WrodsfromDR.htm
  10. http://sacramentopoetrycenter.blogspot.com/2006/03/dennis-schmitz-reading-at-art-foundry.html
  11. http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/aqr/back-issues/17_1and2.cfm
  12. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-10-03. Retrieved 2009-07-01.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  13. http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/review/archive1.shtml
  14. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-10-14. Retrieved 2009-09-13.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  15. http://www.pw.org/content/dennis_schmitz_3
  16. http://www.sacmetroarts.org/Programs/Poet-Laureate/Past-Poets-Laureate
  17. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-11-01. Retrieved 2009-07-01.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  18. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-06-03. Retrieved 2009-07-01.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  19. "Notes on Current Books, Autumn 1980". Virginia Quarterly Review. Autumn 1980. Archived from the original on 2008-11-20. Retrieved 2009-07-01.
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