About Norman Dubie
Norman Dubie (April 10, 1945--February 20, 2023) was an American poet from Barre, Vermont. He is known for having authored twenty-eight poetry collections. Dubie's poetry often embodies historical characters and has been published in prominent literary journals including The New Yorker, Ploughshares, The Paris Review, FIELD, Narrative, The American Poetry Review, The Fiddlehead, and Blackbird, an online platform for literature and the arts. His work has also been featured in numerous anthologies published by Norton. His most recent collection, The Quotations of Bone, was released in 2015 by Copper Canyon Press, and it led to him receiving the international 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize. The poems in this collection engage with the theme of viciousness in its various expressions. Throughout his career, Dubie garnered several honors and accolades, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Bess Hokin Prize from Poetry Magazine and the Modern Poetry Association, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Award. In 2002, he was awarded the PEN Center USA prize for his collection, The Mercy Seat: Collected and New Poems. Dubie completed his studies at Goddard College and the Iowa Writer's Workshop. He was a faculty member in the graduate Creative Writing Program at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, where he held the position of Regents' Professor of English. The Tucson-based band Calexico has noted that Dubie's poetry greatly influenced their album Carried to Dust, particularly the song Two Silver Trees.Browse all poems and texts published on Norman Dubie
