Background
Dimitrov was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, and raised in Detroit, Michigan.
(In his debut collection of poems, Begging for It, Alex Di...)
In his debut collection of poems, Begging for It, Alex Dimitrov leads us through the streets, bridges, and bedrooms of New York City, sometimes as far away as Buenos Aires and Iceland, and as close as our own darkest corners. Dimitrov writes as both observer of and fervent participant in an "American youth," as his speakers navigate both the physical and emotional landscapes of desire, intimacy, and longing --whether for a friend, a lover, or a self. "Saint or stranger, I still recklessly seek you," he writes.
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Dimitrov was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, and raised in Detroit, Michigan.
He attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he studied with the poet Anne Carson, and received a Bachelor in English and Film Studies in 2007. In 2009 he received an Master of Fine Arts in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College, where he studied with the poet Marie Howe.
His poems have been published in Poetry, The American Poetry Review, which awarded him the 2011 Stanley Kunitz Prize, The Yale Review, The Kenyon Review, Slate, Tin House, Boston Review, Poetry Daily, and other publications. In June 2012 Dimitrov released the e-chapbook American Boys, published by Floating Wolf Quarterly. American Boys included poems, childhood photographs, and digital ephemera such as screencaps of text messages and other images from modern methods of communication and connection.
Dimitrov"s first full-length book of poems, Begging for lieutenant, was published by Four Way Books in March 2013.
In February 2014 Dimitrov launched Night Call, a multimedia poetry project through which he read poems to strangers in bed and online. Some of the components of the project included a video and a poem both titled Night Call.
In the fall of 2014 he taught a course titled "Reading and Writing Poetry in the Age of Social Media" at Bennington College in Vermont. Dimitrov is the Senior Content Editor at the Academy of American Poets and teaches creative writing at Rutgers University in New Brunswick and Marymount Manhattan College.
A second book of poems is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press.
Wilde Boys
On May 27, 2009, days after graduating from Sarah Lawrence College, Dimitrov founded Wilde Boys, a queer poetry salon that brought together emerging and established poets and writers in New York City. Since then, Dimitrov has hosted the following writers: John Ashbery, Frank Bidart, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Henri Cole, CAConrad, Michael Cunningham, Mark Doty, Louise Glück, Jorie Graham, Richard Howard, Marie Howe, Wayne Koestenbaum, Dorothea Lasky, Timothy Liu, Daniel Mendelsohn, Eileen Myles, Carl Phillips, Brenda Shaughnessy, David Trinidad, and Edmund White. Public readings for the salon have included poets Mark Bibbins, Tom Healy, Saeed Jones, Paul Legault, Dante Michaeux, Angelo Nikolopoulos, Jason Schneiderman, and Mark Wunderlich.
Dimitrov has also held salons focusing on recovering the work of queer poets Joe Brainard, Tim Dlugos, Leland Hickman and Reginald Shepherd.
A salon was also held in honor of the work of Elizabeth Bishop, with special guests Richard Howard and Gabrielle Calvocoressi. Wilde Boys ended on November 1, 2013.
(In his debut collection of poems, Begging for It, Alex Di...)