Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
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Stephen Dunn
"And the words we find are always insufficient, like love, though they are often lovely and all we have."
~ Stephen Dunn
Interviews & Craft Discussions
The Pulitzer Organization
Stephen Dunn: Influences – Essay with 2 Poems and Videos
https://www.pulitzer.org/article/stephen-dunn-influences
Poetry Foundation – Bio & Selection of Poems
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/stephen-dunn
American Academy of Poets – Biography & Selection of Poems
https://poets.org/poet/stephen-dunn
Hofstra University – Stephen Dunn Collection Page
https://hofstraenglish.wordpress.com/stephen-dunn-collection/
List of archives collections
https://www.hofstra.edu/pdf/library/libspc_univ_archives_collections_dunn_fa.pdf
The New Yorker Magazine – 19 poems published by TNYM from 1980 - 2017
https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/stephen-dunn
Los Angeles Review of Books – January 19, 2019
“One Mask at a Time: An Interview with Stephen Dunn” by Lauren Mauldin
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/one-mask-at-a-time-an-interview-with-stephen-dunn/
Rattle – February 18, 2018
“An Interview with Stephen Dunn” by Green
https://www.rattle.com/a-conversation-with-stephen-dunn/
Solstice Magazine – Winter 2017
Stephen Dunn Interview by Lee Hope
https://solsticelitmag.org/content/stephen-dunn-interview/
Every Writer – November 24, 2017
Interview with Stephen Dunn by Every Writer
https://www.everywritersresource.com/interview-with-stephen-dunn/
Spokane Public Radio – December 7, 2014
Chosen as favorite interview by staff – both audio file and transcript
https://www.spokanepublicradio.org/post/staff-favorite-interview-poet-stephen-dunn
Poetry Northwest – October 15, 2013
Five early poems published by PNW with a short essay by Stephen Dunn
https://www.poetrynw.org/stephen-dunn-five-early-poems/
Green Mountains Review – December 12, 2011
Essay: “Why Do I Write”
http://greenmountainsreview.com/why-write-2-stephen-dunn/
Wall Street Journal – June 17, 2011 (Requires subscription)
“Queens Born Poet Returns” by Julie Steinberg
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304319804576389750841097460
How a Poem Happens – Contemporary Poems Discuss the Making of Poems – January 12, 2009
Interview and discussion of the poem – “And So”
http://howapoemhappens.blogspot.com/2009/01/stephen-dunn-awarded-pulitzer-prize-for.html
Weber State University – Spring/Summer 2007
“Mysteries of the Ordinary: A Conversation with Stephen Dunn” by N. Colwell Snell
https://www.weber.edu/weberjournal/Journal_Archives/Archive_D/Vol_23_3/SDunnConv.html
Guernica – October 27, 2004
“The Hard to Say” Interview
https://www.guernicamag.com/stephen_dunn_on_why_he_writes/
Poets & Writers – August 19, 2004
Interview with Stephen Dunn by Eliza Wald
https://www.pw.org/content/interview_poet_stephen_dunn
PBS News Hour – April 26, 2001
Interview with Elizabeth Farnsworth - Transcript
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/pulitzer-prize-for-poetry-stephen-dunn
The Cortland Review – March 2000
Interview by Philip Dacey
http://www.cortlandreview.com/features/00/03/index.html\
Frostburg State University – March 2000
“Poet of Restraint and Extravagance” - Interview by Nightsun
https://faculty.frostburg.edu/phil/forum/SDunn.htm
Poetry in the Archive
NPR Discussion & Radio Interview on Basketball with Neal Conan
https://poetryinthearchivetest.omeka.net/exhibits/show/stephen-dunn---sports/basketball