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Dennis Schmitz (August 11, 1937 – September 12, 2019) was an American poet.[1]

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Life

Dennis Schmitz grew up in Dubuque, Iowa.[2] He graduated from Loras College and the University of Chicago, where he met and married Loretta D'Agostino in 1960; they have five children together. He has taught at Illinois Institute of Technology, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee[3] and California State University, Sacramento.[4] His former students include Raymond Carver,[5] Charlene Ungstad,[6] Gary Short,[7] and Gary Thompson.[8]

He opposes the death penalty and protests executions in California every time they take place.[9][10]

His work has appeared in the Alaska Quarterly Review,[11] American Poetry Review, The Nation, Paris Review,[12] the Chicago Review,[13] and Zyzzyva.[14]

He resided in Sacramento.[15]

Awards

• 2000–2002 Poet Laureate of Sacramento, California[16]
• 1987–1988 Shelley Memorial Award[17]
• 1978 Guggenheim Fellow[18]
• 1976–1977, 1985–1986, 1992–1993 Fellow, National Endowment for the Arts

Works

Poetry

• Animism (Oberlin College Press, 2014)
• The Truth Squad (Copper Canyon Press, 2002)
• About Night: Selected and New Poems (Oberlin College Press, 1993)
• Eden (University of Illinois Press, 1989)
• Singing (Ecco Press, 1985)
• String (Ecco Press, 1980)
• Goodwill, Inc (1976)
• Double Exposures (1971)
• We Weep for Our Strangeness (1969)

Editor

• The Sacramento Anthology of 100 Poems. Sacramento’s Poet Laureate Program; Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission.

References

External links

• Bull, Catherine. "Dennis Schmitz's 'The California Phrasebook'".
• Eskimo Pie Girl (Rebecca Morrison). "Dennis Schmitz Poets".
• Sacramento Poetry Center. "Dennis Schmitz".

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