Matt Donovan (poet)

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]

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

Essays
gollark: Where are the closures? There are no (explicit) closures.
gollark: Okay, I don't know what you mean now.
gollark: What?
gollark: Haskell uses lazy evaluation so you can implement `if` as a normal function.
gollark: Irrelevant. Haskell is lazy.

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-09-03. Retrieved 2011-09-27.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-09-26. Retrieved 2011-09-27.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v7n2/poetry/donovan_m/index.htm
  4. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/toc/1072
  5. http://www.kenyonreview.org/issues/summer11/index.php%5B%5D
  6. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-04-15. Retrieved 2011-09-27.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. http://www.threepennyreview.com/tocs/75_f98.html
  8. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-04-06. Retrieved 2011-09-27.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  9. http://www.whiting.org/awards/winners/matt-donovan
  10. http://www.news.vcu.edu/news/Matthew_Donovans_Vellum_selected_for_VCUs_Levis_Reading_Prize
  11. "Creative Capital - Investing in Artists who Shape the Future". creative-capital.org. Retrieved 2016-11-07.
  12. "'Inheritance': A haunting chamber opera debuts at UC San Diego's Experimental Theater in La Jolla". La Jolla Light. 2018-10-24. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
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