Timothy Donnelly

Timothy Donnelly
BornProvidence, Rhode Island, U.S.
OccupationProfessor and poet
NationalityAmerican
Alma materJohns Hopkins University;
Columbia University
GenrePoetry

Timothy Donnelly (born June 3, 1969, Providence, Rhode Island)[1] is an American poet.

Life

He earned his BA from Johns Hopkins University and his MFA in Poetry from Columbia University's MFA in Creative Writing program. He is an associate professor at Columbia University. He became a poetry editor for the Boston Review in 1996.[2]

Donnelly is the author of Twenty-Seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit (Grove Press, 2003), and The Cloud Corporation (Wave Books, 2010).[3]. He was a 2024 James Merrill House Fellow.

Awards and honors

Bibliography

Poetry

Collections
  • Donnelly, Timothy (2003). Twenty-seven props for a production of Eine Lebenszeit. New York: Grove Press.
  • The Cloud Corporation. Wave Books. 21 September 2010. pp. 13–. ISBN 978-1-933517-47-6.
  • The Problem of the Many. Wave Books. 2019.
Chapbooks
  • The Cloud Corporation (chapbook) (hand held editions, 2008)
  • Three Poets. Minus A Press. 2012. (coauthored with John Ashbery and Geoffrey G. O'Brien)
  • "Hymn to Life" (chapbook) (Factory Hollow Press, 2014)
  • "Poems for Political Disaster" (chapbook). Boston Review. January 2017. ISBN 978-1946511010.
List of poems
Title Year First published Reprinted/collected
Diet Mountain Dew 2016 Donnelly, Timothy (March 21, 2016). "Diet Mountain Dew". The New Yorker. 92 (6): 72–73.
Head of Orpheus 2023 Donnelly, Timothy (February 6, 2023). "Head of Orpheus". The New Yorker. 98 (48): 46.

References

  1. ^ "About Timothy Donnelly | Academy of American Poets".
  2. ^ "Timothy Donnelly - Faculty". Columbia University. Retrieved December 6, 2010.
  3. ^ Hillel Italie (December 19, 2003), "Poetry; Changing readers a word at a time; For Timothy Donnelly, fame would be nice, but crafting language is its own reward.", Los Angeles Times