Photo by Jana Birchum
Dean Young, a contemporary American poet, is often cited as a 2nd generation New York School poet. Some of his recent books are Primitive Mentor, The Art of Recklessness and Elegy on Toy Piano. The latter coming out in 2005 and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Young has been awarded the Colorado Prize for Poetry for Strike Anywhere and his work has been published in The Best American Poetry anthology many times since 1993. Fellowships include a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center.
In 2008, Young became the William Livingston Chair of Poetry at the University of Texas at Austin.
These days Dean Young is a poet who teaches at the University of Texas, his newest book of poems, Fall Higher, was released this month and he is on the waiting list for a heart transplant. I read this story in the Austin Chronicle by Amy Smith and felt compelled to share this with our readers here at Writers. The link to the story is below but, before that, I’d like to pass on the link here that is at the end of the article. Heart transplants are not cheap and, to help raise money to pay for transplant-related expenses, a reading and reception/fundraiser for Dean Young was held Friday, April 8, 6pm, at the Austin Museum of Art. Online donations can be made at www.transplants.org/donate/deanyoung.
Read the story by Amy Smith Here>>
I’me going to look this guy up. he better have some good poems after that big build up!