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Dennis Schmitz (August 11, 1937 – September 12, 2019) was an American poet.[1]
Dennis Schmitz grew up in Dubuque, Iowa.[2] He graduated from Loras College and the University of Chicago, where he met and married Loretta D'Agostino in 1960; they have five children together. He has taught at Illinois Institute of Technology, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee[3] and California State University, Sacramento.[4] His former students include Raymond Carver,[5] Charlene Ungstad,[6] Gary Short,[7] and Gary Thompson.[8]
He opposes the death penalty and protests executions in California every time they take place.[9][10]
His work has appeared in the Alaska Quarterly Review,[11] American Poetry Review, The Nation, Paris Review,[12] the Chicago Review,[13] and Zyzzyva.[14]
He resided in Sacramento.[15]
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- 2000–2002 Poet Laureate of Sacramento, California[16]
- 1987–1988 Shelley Memorial Award[17]
- 1978 Guggenheim Fellow[18]
- 1976–1977, 1985–1986, 1992–1993 Fellow, National Endowment for the Arts
Poetry
- Our Music (Gunpowder Press, 2022)
- Animism (Oberlin College Press, 2014)
- The Truth Squad (Copper Canyon Press, 2002)
- About Night: Selected and New Poems (Oberlin College Press, 1993)
- Eden (University of Illinois Press, 1989)
- Singing (Ecco Press, 1985)
- String (Ecco Press, 1980)
- Goodwill, Inc (1976)
- Double Exposures (1971)
- We Weep for Our Strangeness (1969)
Editor
- The Sacramento Anthology of 100 Poems. Sacramento’s Poet Laureate Program; Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission.
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