Dionisio D. Martinez

Dionisio D. Martinez (born 7 April 1956), is a Cuban-born poet who grew up speaking Spanish, raised first in Spain, then in the United States.^[1]

His work appeared in American Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, Georgia Review, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review,^[2] New Republic, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Virginia Quarterly Review.^[3]

He lives in Tampa, Florida.

Awards

• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
• Guggenheim Fellowship^[4]
• Whiting Foundation
• 1999 National Poetry Series, for Climbing Back

Works

• "Rest before you sleep", Poetry (September 2008)
• "Tipping over the actuarial tables", Poetry Foundation
• "Belated Valentine for Alina", Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 1995

• Climbing Back. W.W. Norton & Company. 2000. ISBN 9780393050066. 
• Bad Alchemy. W.W. Norton & Company. 1995. ISBN 9780393315318. 
• History as a Second Language. Ohio State University Press. 1993. ISBN 9780814205921. 

References

1. ^ Ramazani, Jahan, Richard Ellman and Robert O'Clair, The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Volume 2: Contemporary Poetry, third edition, 2003, p 1030, New York: W.W. Norton & Co.
2. ^ http://www.kenyonreview.org/issues/sf97/authors.php
3. ^ http://www.pw.org/content/dionisio_d_martinez_1
4. ^ http://www.gf.org/fellows/9478-dionisio-d-martinez

External links

• "Author's website"

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Name	Martinez, Dionisio D.
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