Dorothy Barresi

Dorothy Barresi (born November 13, 1957 Buffalo, New York) is an American poet.

Dorothy Barresi
Occupation	Poet
Language	English
Nationality	American
Education	MFA, MA
Alma mater	Univ. of Akron; Univ. of Pittsburgh; Univ. of Massachusetts
Period	Contemporary
Genre	Poetry
Notable awards	Barnard New Women Poet Prize, Pushcart Prize, American Book Award, NEA Fellowship
Spouse	Phil Matero
Children	Dante and Andrew

Life

She was raised in Akron, Ohio. She teaches in the English Department at California State University at Northridge

Her work has appeared in Antioch Review, AGNI, Gettysburg Review, Harvard Review, Indiana Review, Kenyon Review, Mid-American Review, Parnassus, POETRY, Pool, Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, Triquarterly and Southern Review.

She has served often as a judge for the Los Angeles Times Book Award in Poetry.

She is married to Phil Matero, and they have sons Andrew and Dante. They live in the San Fernando Valley.

Education

• MFA, University of Massachusetts Amherst 1985
• MA, University of Pittsburgh 1981
• BA, University of Akron 1979

Awards

• 18th annual American Book Award sponsored by the Before Columbus Foundation
• Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown (MA), North Carolina Arts Council.
• Pushcart Prize (twice)
• Hart Crane Memorial Poetry Prize
• Emily Clark Balch Prize Virginia Quarterly Review
• Grand Prize, Los Angeles Poetry Festival's Fin de Millennium poetry competition.
• 1990 Barnard Women Poets Prize
• 2014 Dagbert L. Cunningham Award for work in the field of semi-poetics.

Works

Poetry

• (chapbook)

Interviews

• “Showcased Writer: Dorothy Barresi”

Reviews

Much contemporary poetry fits into one of the many aesthetic categories that lie between the polar opposites of the radically "experimental" poem and the "traditional," often formal, poem. Dorothy Barresi’s work, however, is singular in its resistance, better yet, rejection, of current poetic camps. Part Sylvia Plath, part John Donne, Barresi handles both surprise and expectation with deftness, displaying uncommon verbal ingenuity and intelligence of investigation. Her third book, Rouge Pulp, spins poems of startling metaphysical image shot through with slang and pop culture. Her narrators are bold, swaggering through the poems as if to say, if we’re all intersections of discourses nowadays, then their job is to speak those multiple voices as articulately as possible.

See also

• List of poets from the United States

References

Source: Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 2002. PEN (Permanent Entry Number): 0000143831.

External links

• "An Interview with Dorothy Barresi", West Point, Janine Hauber and Mary Hood