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Dionisio D. Martinez (born 7 April 1956), is a Cuban-born poet who grew up speaking Spanish, raised first in Spain, then in the United States.[1]

His work appeared in American Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, Georgia Review, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review,[2] New Republic, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Virginia Quarterly Review.[3]

He lives in Tampa, Florida.

Awards

• 1993 Whiting Award
• 1997 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
• 1998 Guggenheim Fellowship[4]
• 1999 National Poetry Series, for Climbing Back

Works

Books

• Dancing at the Chelsea. State Street Press. 1992. (chapbook)
• History as a Second Language. Ohio State University Press. 1993. ISBN 978-0-8142-0592-1.
• Bad Alchemy. W.W. Norton & Company. 1995. ISBN 978-0-393-31531-8.
• Climbing Back. W.W. Norton & Company. 2000. ISBN 978-0-393-05006-6.

Poems

• "Belated Valentine for Alina", Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 1995
• "Rest before you sleep", Poetry (September 2008)
• "Tipping over the actuarial tables", Poetry Foundation

See also

• Cuban American literature
• List of Cuban-American writers

References

External links

• Profile at The Whiting Foundation

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