Background
Stuart Dischell was born on May 29, 1954, in Atlantic City, New Jersey, the United States. to Alvin (a businessman) and Mary (a visual artist) Dischell.
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One Morgan Pl, Yellow Springs, OH 45387, USA
Dischell studied Literature at Antioch College.
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1400 Spring Garden St, Greensboro, NC 27412, USA
Dischell studied received his Master of Fine Arts degree at the Writers workshop at the University of Iowa, where he studied poetry with Donald Justice, Stanley Plumly, and Jon Anderson.
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One Morgan Pl, Yellow Springs, OH 45387, USA
Dischell studied Literature at Antioch College.
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1400 Spring Garden St, Greensboro, NC 27412, USA
Dischell studied received his Master of Fine Arts degree at the Writers workshop at the University of Iowa, where he studied poetry with Donald Justice, Stanley Plumly, and Jon Anderson.
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Good Hope Road
(The poems in Stuart Dischell's prizewinning first collect...)
The poems in Stuart Dischell's prizewinning first collection, Good Hope Road, inhabit geography of seeming contradictions where lyric and narrative, personal life and mythic yearning, the domestic and the historic, the elegant and the impure converge.
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1993
Evenings and Avenues
(Evenings & Avenues, the new collection of poems by award-...)
Evenings & Avenues, the new collection of poems by award-winning writer Stuart Dischell, captures the yearning spirit of the end of our century. These lyrics and story-poems are set in locales as varied as Boston, Sarajevo, and London, in wax-works, shops, bedrooms, and, most frequently, a street, an avenue, or a boulevard, where the seven "Evening" poems that punctuate the book take place.
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1996
Dig Safe
(Stuart Dischell's poetry is passionate, darkly comic, hea...)
Stuart Dischell's poetry is passionate, darkly comic, heartbreaking, and always unpredictable. Dig Safe reaffirms why he commands high regard among poets and critics and popularity among his readers. Taking as their metaphor the markings that construction workers use to warn of utilities below street level - these new poems pierce the body politic as they evoke interconnection and misalliance, movement and inhabitation.
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2003
Backwards Days
(Sly, comic, inventive, and exuberant, the brokenhearted l...)
Sly, comic, inventive, and exuberant, the brokenhearted lyrics and dark parables of Backwards Days are cast in the spirit and craft Stuart Dischell’s poetry is known for. In this, his fourth full-length collection, he revs up both music and experience and writes poems of emotional intensity that chronicle the restlessness of desire.
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2007
Standing on Z
(Poetry. Stuart Dischell's new chapbook sings of adventure...)
Poetry. Stuart Dischell's new chapbook sings of adventuresome travel and camaraderie. On the waterfront, we find drunken captains, dissolute merchants and, improbably, a momentary restful pause. In the countryside and in the city, Dischell focuses not on any landscape or sight, but on the way one's friendships frame experience, expanding it beyond known dimensions.
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2016
Children with Enemies
(There is a gentleness in the midst of savagery in Stuart ...)
There is a gentleness in the midst of savagery in Stuart Dischell’s fifth full-length collection of poetry. These poems are ever aware of the momentary grace of the present and the fleeting histories that precede the instants of time. Part elegist, part fabulist, part absurdist, Dischell writes at the edges of imagination, memory, and experience. By turns outwardly social and inwardly reflective, comic and remorseful, the beautifully crafted poems of Children with Enemies transfigure dread with a reluctant wisdom and come alive to the confusions and implications of what it means to be human.
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2017
Stuart Dischell
Edit ProfileEducation
Dischell studied Literature at Antioch College and received his Master of Fine Arts degree at the Writers workshop at the University of Iowa, where he studied poetry with Donald Justice, Stanley Plumly, and Jon Anderson.
Career
After graduating from Iowa, Dischell moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts and taught at Boston University. In 1992, he joined the faculty of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. Dischell is the author of Good Hope Road, a 1991 National Poetry Series Selection, (Viking, 1993), Evenings & Avenues (Penguin, 1996), Dig Safe (Penguin, 2003), and Backwards Days (Penguin, 2007), Touch Monkey(2013), Standing on Z (2016), and Children with Enemies (2017).
Achievements
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Dischell is the recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the North Carolina Arts Council, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Dischell's poems have been published in journals such as The Atlantic, The New Republic, Agni, Ploughshares, Slate, The Kenyon Review, and in anthologies including Essential Pleasures, Hammer and Blaze, The Pushcart Prize, and Good Poems.
Works
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Good Hope Road
(The poems in Stuart Dischell's prizewinning first collect...)
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Backwards Days
(Sly, comic, inventive, and exuberant, the brokenhearted l...)
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Evenings and Avenues
(Evenings & Avenues, the new collection of poems by award-...)
1996 -
Children with Enemies
(There is a gentleness in the midst of savagery in Stuart ...)
2017 -
Dig Safe
(Stuart Dischell's poetry is passionate, darkly comic, hea...)
2003 -
Standing on Z
(Poetry. Stuart Dischell's new chapbook sings of adventure...)
2016
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Good Hope Road
Connections
Dischell is married to Karen Bjork since 1990. The couple has two children.
