Paul Dickey (poet)

Paul Dickey (born 1948 in Hardtner, KS) is an American poet, author, philosophy instructor, and playwright who has published three 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 150 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.[1][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." [7]

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).[2]

Bibliography

Books
  • Wires Over the Homeplace (Pinyon Publishing, 2013) [12]
  • Liberal Limericks of 2012 (The Missouri River Review Press, 2012) (e-book). Illustrated by Ira Joel Haber. ASIN: B008MP9POM
  • They Say This is How Death Came Into the World (Mayapple Press, 2011) [13][14]
  • What Wisconsin Took (Parallel Press, 2006) [15]

Anthologies
  • "In a Country Where Everything Has Spin" in Santi, Alexis Enrico (Editor), Best of Our Stories, Volume 3, CreateSpace, 2010. ISBN 978-1453718568
  • "When It All Comes Down to the Last Resort" in Clements, Brian & Jamey Dunham (Editors), An Introduction to the Prose Poem, Firewheel Editions, 2010. ISBN 978-0966575477
  • "Constellation" in Kosmicki, Greg & Mary K Stillwell (Editors), Nebraska Presence: An Anthology of Poetry, (Omaha, NE: The Backwaters Press, 2007.) ISBN 978-0979393433

Poetry, Fiction, Drama, and Creative Nonfiction

32 Poems, Anti-, Bellevue Literary Review, Cider Press Review, Concho River Review, Crab Orchard Review, Cue: A Journal of Prose Poetry, diode, failbetter, The Freeman, Chamber Four, Laurel Review, Light (journal), Linebreak, Memoir (and), Mid-American Review, Nimrod, Pleiades (journal), Poet Lore, Potomac Review, Prairie Schooner, Rattle, Sentence, and Southern Poetry Review." [1]

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References
  1. "Poets & Writers Profile". 2013. Retrieved 2015-09-01.
  2. "Kansas Poets: Paul Dickey". 2013. Retrieved 2015-09-01.
  3. "Paul Dickey". Nebraska Center for Writers. Creighton University English Department. Archived from the original on 2003-10-27.
  4. Sample, Erin (2015). "Arts & Humanities Livelihood". Nebraska Cultural Endowment. Retrieved 2015-09-01.
  5. "Shelterskelter 17 Pays Homage to Edgar Allan Poe". broadwayworld.com. October 4, 2012. Retrieved 2015-09-10.
  6. Hannan, Maryanne (2011). "Review of Dickey, They Say This is How Death Came Into the World". Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics, #9 (Firewheel Editions).
  7. "Poet to read work at Northwestern". Northwestern College (Iowa). 2012. Retrieved 2015-09-01.
  8. "2015 Master Poets Award". Nebraska Arts Council. 2015. Archived from the original on 2015-10-01. Retrieved 2015-09-01.
  9. "NAC announces individual awards in Literature". Lincoln Journal Star. 11 April 2015. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
  10. "Verse Daily". 2011. Retrieved 2015-09-01.
  11. "Distinguished Visiting Writers Series". Pittsburg State University. February 26, 2013. Retrieved 2015-09-10.
  12. "Publisher site for Wires Over the Homeplace (link to reviews)". 2013. Retrieved 2015-09-01.
  13. "Mayapple Publisher site". 2011. Retrieved 2015-09-01.
  14. Bradley, Jerry (2011). "Review of Dickey, They Say This is How Death Came Into the World". Concho River Review, Vol XXV, #1 (Spring, 2011).
  15. Schroeder, Heather Lee (July 28, 2006). "Poets Provide Good Summer Reads". The Capital Times (Madison, WI). Archived from the original on February 22, 2016. Retrieved 2015-09-10.
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