Dennis Nurkse

Dennis Nurkse is a poet from Brooklyn.

Life

Nurkse is the son of the eminent economist Ragnar Nurkse. He has taught workshops at Rikers Island, and his poems about prison life appeared in The American Poetry Review, Evergreen Review, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, TriQuarterly, The Kenyon Review, and other magazines. He has taught at The New School University and Columbia University, and is currently on the faculty at Sarah Lawrence College. He has translated anonymous medieval and flamenco Spanish lyric poems and has written about the Spanish pastoral poems by contemporary Giannina Braschi. His work has appeared in The Evergreen Review, The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, The Times Literary Supplement, Ploughshares, The Paris Review.

Honors and awards

• 2007 Guggenheim Fellow
• 1990 Whiting Award
• NEA fellowship
• NYFA fellowships

Published works

• "Novel To Be Read With Closed Eyes"; "Letter From Pico", Ars Interpres International
• Staggered Lights, Owl Creek Press, (July 1990), ISBN 978-0-937669-42-6
• Voices Over Water, Graywolf Press (July 1993), ISBN 978-1-55597-188-5
• Leaving Xaia, Four Way Books
• The Rules of Paradise, Four Way books
• The Fall, Knopf
• The Border Kingdom, Alfred A. Knopf, August 8, 2008
• A Night in Brooklyn, Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.

Anthologies

External links

• Interview with Dennis Nurkse in the Bloomsbury Review
• Profile at The Whiting Foundation