David Yezzi

David Dalton Yezzi (born 1966) is an American poet, editor, actor,[1] and professor. He currently teaches poetry in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.

David Yezzi

Life

Yezzi was born in Albany, New York[2] He attended The Doane Stuart School.[3][4][5] Yezzi earned a bachelor's degree in theater from Carnegie Mellon University and a master of fine arts degree in creative writing from Columbia University School of the Arts.[6]

Career

Yezzi was Director of the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y in New York City from 2001 to 2005 and has worked as executive editor and, then, poetry editor of The New Criterion, associate editor of Parnassus: Poetry in Review, and was on the staff of The New York Observer.[6] He is a professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and a former editor of The Hopkins Review.

Yezzi was a co-founder of the San Francisco theater company, Thick Description, and has performed in works by Shakespeare, Shaw, Brecht, Goethe, Williams, and others in the United States and Europe.[6] In March 2010, Verse Theater Manhattan presented Yezzi's evening of verse monologues, Dirty Dan & Other Travesties, at the Bowery Poetry Club, with Yezzi performing "Tomorrow & Tomorrow." In October 2021, he performed the title role in The Baltimore Shakespeare Factory's production of King Lear.[7]

In 1998, he was awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University (1998–2000).[6]

His poems have been published in literary journals including The Atlantic, Poetry, The Yale Review, The Paris Review, The New Republic, Poetry Daily and The New Criterion. His literary essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The New York Sun, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, The (London) Times Literary Supplement, Poetry and elsewhere.[6]

Yezzi's poem "The Call" was included in The Best American Poetry 2006 and "Minding Rites" appeared in The Best American Poetry 2012.

In December 2008, Azores was chosen as a Slate magazine "Best Book of 2008." In 2015, Birds of the Air was a finalist for the Poets' Prize.

Bibliography

Non-fiction
  • Late Romance: Anthony Hecht--A Poet's Life (St. Martin's Press, 2023), 464 pages, ISBN 978-1250016584

Poetry
  • More Things in Heaven (Measure Press, 2022), 156 pages, ISBN 978-1939574336
  • Black Sea (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2018), poetry, 74 pages, ISBN 978-0887486357
  • Birds of the Air (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2013), poetry, 90 pages, ISBN 978-0887485718
  • Azores (Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 2008), poetry, 56 pages, ISBN 978-0-8040-1113-6
  • The Hidden Model (TriQuarterly/Northwestern University Press, 2003), poetry, 96 pages, ISBN 978-0810151451

Chapbooks
  • Two Ranges [Vertical] by Ernest Hilbert and David Yezzi (Nemean Lion Press, 2013), hand-sewn, signed-limited concertina book
  • Tomorrow & Tomorrow, with an afterword by Denis Donoghue (Exot Books, 2012), ISBN 978-0-9844249-7-9
  • Such Root Satisfaction, 3 X 5 [Three by David Yezzi, Five by Ernest Hilbert] (Nemean Lion Press, 2010)
  • A Fletching of Hackles: Fresh Verse by Ernest Hilbert and David Yezzi (Nemean Lion Press, 2009)
  • Sad Is Eros (Aralia Press, 2003)

Anthologies (edited)
List of poems
Title Year First published Reprinted/collected
Sugar on snow 2019 Yezzi, David (July 2019). "Sugar on snow". The Atlantic. 324 (1): 38.

Plays

Libretti
  • His libretto for a new chamber opera by composer David Conte, Firebird Motel, premiered in 2003 and was released on CD by Arsis.[6]

References
  1. Interview (Unterberg Poetry Center) with Ernest Hibert 'Fiction' The Cortland Review issue 32 June 2006
  2. review.com/issue/32/yezzi_i.html An Interview with David Yezzi by Ernest Hilbert, The Cortland Review, Issue 32, June 2006, accessed February 1, 2007
  3. "Frequency North Returns with Kaya Oakes and David Yezzi". 12 March 2013.
  4. Nester, Daniel (July 22, 2021). "Poetry on Vinyl: Some Haystacks Don't Even Have Any Needle".
  5. Mair, Elizabeth Floyd (August 23, 2013). "Making a life's work from words". Times Union.
  6. Google Cache of biographical sketch page of David Yezzi at 92nd Street Y Web site, accessed February 1, 2007
  7. MD Theatre Review
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