Dorianne Laux

Dorianne Laux
Born	(1952-01-10) January 10, 1952 (age 72) Augusta, Maine
Occupation	Poet, professor
Education	Mills College (BA)
Notable works	The Book of Men (2011), Facts about the Moon (2005), What We Carry (1994)
Spouse	Joseph Millar
Children	1
Website
doriannelaux.com

Dorianne Laux (born January 10, 1952, in Augusta, Maine) is an American poet.

Biography

Laux worked as a sanatorium cook, a gas station manager, and a maid before receiving a B.A. in English from Mills College in 1988.[1]

Laux taught at the University of Oregon. She is a professor at North Carolina State University’s creative writing program, and the MFA in Writing Program at Pacific University.[2] She is also a contributing editor at The Alaska Quarterly Review.

Her work appeared in American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Ms., Orion,[3] Ploughshares, and Zyzzyva.[4]

Laux lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with her husband, poet Joseph Millar.[2] She has one daughter.[5]

Awards

• Pulitzer Prize finalist for Only As the Day is Long: New and Selected Poems
• The Paterson Prize for The Book of Men
• The Roanoke-Chowan Award for The Book of Men
• Pushcart Prize
• Two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts[6]
• The Best American Poetry 1999
• The Best American Poetry 2006
• The Best American Poetry 2013
• The Best American Poetry 2017
• Guggenheim Fellowship[7]
• Oregon Book Award for Facts about the Moon, selected by Ai[1]
• 2006 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize shortlisted for Facts about the Moon
• National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for What We Carry
• Life on Earth longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry[8]

Works

• Awake. introduced by Philip Levine. BOA Editions. 1990. ISBN 978-0-918526-76-2. re-issued by Eastern Washington University Press
• What We Carry. BOA Editions. 1994. ISBN 978-1-880238-07-3.
• Smoke. BOA Editions. 2000. ISBN 978-1-880238-86-8.
• Facts about the Moon. W. W. Norton & Company. 2005. ISBN 978-0-393-32962-9.
• Superman: The Chapbook Red Dragonfly Press January 2008[1]
• Dark Charms Red Dragonfly Press 2010
• The Book of Men: Poems. W. W. Norton. 28 February 2011. ISBN 978-0-393-07955-5.
• The Book of Women, Red Dragonfly Press 2012 ISBN 9781937693046
• Ce que nous portons, Translation of What We Carry by Hélène Cardona, Editions du Cygne 2014 ISBN 978-2-84924-377-0[9][10]
• Only As the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems, W. W. Norton 2019 ISBN 978-0393652338[11]

Anthologies

• Best of The American Poetry Review
• The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry
• four citations in Best American Poetry.

Performance

• The Poetry Brothel The Poetry Society of New York

As editor

• Kim Addonizio; Dorianne Laux (1997). The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry. W.W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-31654-4. Dorianne Laux.

References

1. "Dorianne Laux". Poets.org. The Academy of American Poets. Retrieved February 5, 2013.
2. "Core Faculty". Pacific University. Retrieved February 5, 2013.
3. "Orion Magazine - Night". Orion Magazine. Retrieved 2023-04-02.
4. "Dorianne Laux". Directory of Writers. Poets & Writers. Retrieved February 5, 2013.
5. "Dorianne Laux". Web Del Sol. Retrieved February 5, 2013.
6. "Dorianne Laux". Writers' Corner. National Endowment for the Arts. Archived from the original on February 2, 2013. Retrieved February 5, 2013.
7. "Dorianne Laux". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2023-04-02.
8. "The 2024 National Book Awards Longlist". The New Yorker. 12 September 2024. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
9. "Reviewed by Vincent Motard-Avargues in La Cause Littéraire".
10. "Interviewed by Hélène Cardona in Plume".
11. "Reviewed by Andrew Jarvis in New York Journal of Books".

• "Facts about the Poet" (PDF). Literary Reference. Winter 2006. Retrieved 8 January 2012.

External links

• Official website
• Guide to the Dorianne Louise Laux Papers 1968-2019
• Dorianne Laux's poem "Home Movies" in Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts (23.1).

Gave a review to poet Jessica Cuello's book "Liar."