Timothy Donnelly

For other people named Tim Donnelly, see Tim Donnelly (disambiguation).

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

Timothy Donnelly
Born	Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.
Occupation	Professor and poet
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Johns Hopkins University; Columbia University
Genre	Poetry

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]

Awards and honors

• 2012: Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, The Cloud Corporation
• 2012: Guggenheim Fellowship
• 2014: Alice Fay di Castagnola Award

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

External links

• Timothy Donnelly's author page at Wave Books^{[permanent dead link]}
• Timothy Donnelly's faculty page at Columbia University
• Timothy Donnelly talks about getting "The Cloud Corporation" published in Harper's and "Globus Hystericus" in The Paris Review
• 'The Syntactical Sublime'^[usurped], review of The Cloud Corporation in the Oxonian Review
• “A javelin of lavender…asserts a dozen verities”, review of The Cloud Corporation on THEthe Poetry Blog
• "Globus Hystericus". The Paris Review.