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Stephen Elliot Dunn

Biography Stephen Elliot Dunn

Stephen Elliot Dunn (June 24, 1939 – June 24, 2021) was an American poet and educator who authored twenty-one collections of poetry. He earned a BA in history and English from Hofstra University, attended the New School Writing Workshops, and finished his MA in creative writing at Syracuse University. Dunn has worked as a professional basketball player, an advertising copywriter, and an editor, as well as a professor of creative writing.​

Personal life

Dunn married his first wife, Lois Kelly, in 1964. Together, they had two children: Susanne and Andrea. They divorced in 2001. He married Barbara Hurd the following year.

Dunn had earlier lived in Port Republic, New Jersey. He later resided at homes in Ocean City, New Jersey, as well as Hurd's hometown of Frostburg, Maryland. He died on the night of his 82nd birthday at his home in Frostburg. He suffered from Parkinson’s disease prior to his death.

Dunn is the Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at Richard Stockton College and lives in Frostburg, Maryland, with his wife, the writer Barbara Hurd.

Career

Dunn began teaching at Stockton University in 1974 and published his first full-length collection entitled Looking for Holes in the Ceiling that same year. He continued working at Stockton for approximately three decades, and also taught at Wichita State University, University of Washington, Columbia University, University of Michigan, and Princeton University.

A collection of essays about Dunn's poetry was published in 2013. He finished his last book, The Not Yet Fallen World, shortly before his death. It is scheduled to be published in May 2022, and was viewed by Dunn as the best work he had written.

Dunn's books of poetry include Lines of Defense (W. W. Norton, 2014); Here and Now: Poems (W. W. Norton, 2011); What Goes On: Selected and New Poems 1995-2009 (2009); Everything Else in the World (2006); Local Visitations (2003); Different Hours (2000), winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry; Loosestrife (1996); New and Selected Poems: 1974-1994 (1994); Landscape at the End of the Century (1991); Between Angels (1989); Local Time (1986), winner of the National Poetry Series; Not Dancing (1984); Work & Love (1981); A Circus of Needs (1978); Full of Lust and Good Usage (1976); and Looking For Holes In the Ceiling 1974. He is also the author of Walking Light: Memoirs and Essays on Poetry (BOA Editions, 2001), and Riffs & Reciprocities: Prose Pairs (1998).

​Award

Dunn's other honors include the Academy Award for Literature, the James Wright Prize, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. He has taught poetry and creative writing and held residencies at Wartburg College, Wichita State University, Columbia University, University of Washington, Syracuse University, Southwest Minnesota State College, Princeton University, and University of Michigan.

Glimpses

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Mrs. Cavendish and the Dancer

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Here and Now

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The Kiss

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The Routine Things Around the House

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Charlotte Bronte in Leeds Point

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Story

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What Goes On

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Workers

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Work

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Why I Think I’m a Writer

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Welcome

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Tenderness

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Sweetness

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Stations

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The Snowmass Cycle

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Sleeping with Ghosts

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Sisyphus’s Affair

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Sisyphus’s Acceptance

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Sisyphus in the Suburbs

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Sisyphus and the Sudden Lightness

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Salvation

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Saints

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RUBBING

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Propositions

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Portrait

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Poetry

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The Photograph in the Hallway

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On the Way to Work

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Old Dogs

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NOISE

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Nocturne

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Naturally

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MUSIC

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Movie Night

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The Metaphysicians of South Jersey

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Men in Winter

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Melville at Barnegat Light

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Meaninglessness

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Mary Shelley in Brigantine

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Loves

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Loveliness

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Loosestrife

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Little Essay on Communication

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Lewis Carroll in the Rabbit Hole

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Letting the Puma Go

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Language

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Landscape at the End of the Century

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Kindness

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In Love, His Grammar Grew

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Ignorance

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The House Was Quiet

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Homage

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Henry James in Cape May

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Hawk

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Harriet Beecher Stowe in Sweetwater

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Happiness

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From the Tower at the Top of the Winding Stairs

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From The Monastery of Work and Love

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From the Garden

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