Keats in the Rain

Dorianne Laux

A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Dorianne Laux’s fourth book of poems, Facts about the Moon (W.W. Norton), is the recipient of the Oregon Book Award and was short-listed for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Laux is also author of Awake (1990), What We Carry (1994), Smoke (2000) and Superman: The Chapbook (2008). In the summer of 2009 Red Dragonfly Press will release a second chapbook, Dark Charms. Co-author of The Poet’s Companion (W. W. Norton) she’s the recipient of two Best American Poetry Prizes, a Best American Erotic Poems Prize, a Pushcart Prize, two fellowships from the NEA and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her work has appeared in the Best of APR, The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, The Best of the Net, and many others. She has been teaching poetry in private and public venues since 1990 and since 2004 at Pacific University’s Low-Residency MFA Program. In the summers she teaches at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California and The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. She and her husband, poet Joseph Millar, recently moved to Raleigh where she joins the faculty at North Carolina State University.