Tory Dent

Tory Dent

Victorine Dent, better known as Tory Dent (1958 - December 30, 2005) was an eminent American poet, art critic, and commentator on the AIDS crisis. [ [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5081654 Tory Dent's Poetry on Life with AIDS : NPR ] ] [ [http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/106 Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - Tory Dent ] ]

Life

Tory Dent was born in 1958 in Wilmington, Delaware. She graduated from Barnard College in 1981. She was diagnosed with HIV when she was 30 years old. Dent spent most of her adult life in New York City and Maine. She married writer Sean Harvey in 1999. Throughout her adult life she produced poetry, often about her struggles and experiences living with HIV. She died on December 30, 2005 in her apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan of the AIDS-associated infection PML.

Career

Tory Dent was the author of "Black Milk" (Sheep Meadow Press, 2005); "HIV, Mon Amour" (Sheep Meadow Press, 1999), which won the 1999 James Laughlin Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and "What Silence Equals" (Persea Books, 1993). Her honors include grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Whiting Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund; The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award; and three PEN American Center Grants for Writers with AIDS. Her poetry had appeared in periodicals such as Agni, Antioch Review, Kalliope, Kenyon Review, Paris Review, Partisan Review, Pequod, Ploughshares, Fence, and others, as well as the anthologies Life Sentences (1994), The Exact Change Yearbook (1995), In the Company of my Solitude (1995), and Things Shaped in Passing (1997). Dent had also written art criticism for magazines including Arts, Flash Art, and Parachute, as well as catalogue essays for art exhibitions.

Bibliography

* "What Silence Equals", Persea Books 1993, ISBN 0-89255-196-8
* "HIV Mon Amour", Sheep Meadow Press 1999, ISBN 1-878818-81-3
* "Black Milk", Sheep Meadow Press 2005, ISBN 1-931357-26-9

References

External links

* [http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/106 Dent's Academy Of American Poets page]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/03/arts/03DENT.html "Tory Dent, Poet Who Wrote of Living With H.I.V., Dies at 47" (NY Times/ January 3, 2006)]
* [http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=3289 Library of Congress Webcast Interview with Tory Dent]


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