Background
Gregory Donovan was born on July 8, 1950, in Mammoth Springs, Arkansas, to Thomas A. Donovan, a janitor, and Barbara R. Donovan, a factory worker.
Gregory Donovan
Columbia, MO 65211, United States
In 1972, Donovan received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Missouri.
201 Presidents' Cir, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, United States
In 1979, Donovan received a Master of Arts from the University of Utah.
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Donovan received a Ph.D. from State University of New York at Binghamton in 1983.
Gregory Donovan and Michele Poulos at Los Angeles Greek Film Festival, June 8, 2017
Gregory Donovan and Michele Poulos at the opening night gala at the Virginia Film Festival, Nov. 3, 2016.
From L to R: Gregory Donovan (producer), David St. John (poet), Sam Beam of Iron & Wine (composer), Michele Poulos (director/producer)
(The winner of the 1993 Devins Award for Poetry, Gregory D...)
The winner of the 1993 Devins Award for Poetry, Gregory Donovan, offers 24 poems notable for their characters, taking risks both knowingly and unknowingly as they journey toward discovery of the self behind the mirror.
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1993
(Both daring and exacting, Torn from the Sun, journeys thr...)
Both daring and exacting, Torn from the Sun, journeys through the ensnarements of mortality. The poems' meditations, rendered in supple language and form, invite us to step along with the likes of Miyamoto Musashi, John Coltrane, Walter Benjamin, Jorge Luis Borges, and Vincent Van Gogh, as they fly and fall through labyrinthine paths of life. Torn from the Sun weaves mosaic steps that stir the ashes of rebirth, recognizing that these bewildering, narrow corridors are not a prison for death, but rather a space for interior discovery. Traced in this poetry is a way out and it is the way in.
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2015
Gregory Donovan was born on July 8, 1950, in Mammoth Springs, Arkansas, to Thomas A. Donovan, a janitor, and Barbara R. Donovan, a factory worker.
In 1972, Donovan received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Missouri. In 1979, he also received a Master of Arts from the University of Utah, and a Ph.D. from State University of New York at Binghamton in 1983.
Donovan is a Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University and teaches in its graduate creative writing program, where he's often served as the Director of Creative Writing, and he is Senior Editor for Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts.
Donovan has published poetry and nonfiction essays widely, most recently in 32 Poems, Copper Nickel, Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and diode. His poetry, essays, and fiction have appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, New England Review, TriQuarterly, Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, Copper Nickel, and many other journals, as well as in a number of anthologies, including Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets of Virginia (University of Virginia Press).
Along with his wife, the award-winning poet, filmmaker, and screenwriter Michele Poulos, he is a producer of the feature-length documentary film, A Late Style of Fire: Larry Levis, American Poet.
(The winner of the 1993 Devins Award for Poetry, Gregory D...)
1993(Both daring and exacting, Torn from the Sun, journeys thr...)
2015
Quotations:
"I write the sort of poetry I would like to see written, with no interest more significant than the pursuit of elegance, as scientists use the term. My primary source is the imagination."
"Writing is a journey, an extended meditation, an uncertain venture. I have written on subjects I have found striking and engaging, trusting that if I have done my work well, others will join my engagement, and be struck."
Gregory Donovan is married to Michele Poulos, an author and filmmaker.