Dennis Schmitz

Dennis Schmitz (August 11, 1937 – September 12, 2019) was an American poet.[1]

Life

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]

Awards

Works

Poetry
  • 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.

References
  1. Obituaries The Sacramento Bee (subscription required)
  2. Voight, Sandye (September 18, 2003). "Poet making trek back to his Dubuque roots; Schmitz will give a reading tonight at the Carnegie-Stout Library". Dubuque Telegraph – Herald. Archived from the original on October 25, 2012.
  3. Europa Publications, ed. (2003). International Who's Who in Poetry 2004. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-85743-178-0.
  4. "Fall 2002 Journal". www.csus.edu. Archived from the original on January 27, 2003.
  5. Carver, Raymond; Gentry, Marshall Bruce; Stull, William L (January 1990). Conversations with Raymond Carver. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 180. ISBN 978-0-87805-449-7.
  6. "Jane Crown's Poetry Radio Online Radio by the Jane Crown Show | BlogTalkRadio Month: 12/2008". www.blogtalkradio.com. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved January 12, 2022.
  7. http://www.onlinenevada.org/Gary_Short
  8. Sklenicka, Carol. Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life. New York: Scribner, 2009
  9. "Cell Door Magazine - Poetry - Ashes Into The Wind by Steven King Ainsworth - Vol 002 Issue 03". www.lairdcarlson.com. Archived from the original on February 21, 2002.
  10. "Sacramento Poetry Center: DENNIS SCHMITZ READING AT ART FOUNDRY FEB. 25". March 7, 2006.
  11. "Alaska Quarterly Review". Alaska Quarterly Review. Retrieved June 18, 2023.
  12. "The Paris Review - Summer 1975". Archived from the original on October 3, 2009. Retrieved July 1, 2009.
  13. "Chicago Review". humanities.uchicago.edu. Archived from the original on June 12, 2002.
  14. "Poetry from Zyzzyva". Archived from the original on October 14, 2009. Retrieved September 13, 2009.
  15. "Dennis Schmitz". Poets & Writers. May 28, 1981. Retrieved June 18, 2023.
  16. "Past Poets Laureate - Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission".
  17. "Previous Award Winners". Archived from the original on November 1, 2009. Retrieved July 1, 2009.
  18. "All Fellows - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Archived from the original on June 3, 2011. Retrieved July 1, 2009.
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