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

Works

• Awake. introduced by Philip Levine. BOA Editions. 1990. ISBN  978-0-918526-76-2.{{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: others ( link) 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 ^{[8] [9]}
• Only As the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems, W. W. Norton 2019 ISBN  978-0393652338 ^[10]

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

• "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."