Beverly Dahlen
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Beverly Dahlen (born November 7, 1934) is an American poet who lives and works in San Francisco, CA.
Life and work
Dahlen is a native of Portland, Oregon, where she attended public schools. she moved with her family to Eureka, California, after World War II. In 1956, she resettled in San Francisco where she has lived for many years. Her first book, Out of the Third, was published by Momo's Press in 1974. Two chapbooks, A Letter at Easter (Effie's Press, 1976) and The Egyptian Poems (Hipparchia Press, 1983), were followed by the publication of the first volume of A Reading in 1985 (A Reading 1—7, Momo's Press). Since then, three more volumes of A Reading have appeared, a serial poem that continues to be in process.{{Cite web|url=http://xpoetics.blogspot.com/2008/12/beverly-dahlen-tribute-at-small-press.html|title = X Poetics: Beverly Dahlen Tribute at Small Press Traffic Saturday December 13, 2008|date = December 14, 2008}}
Dahlen was a cofounder, with Kathleen Fraser and Frances Jaffer of the feminist poetics newsletter (HOW)ever. In December 2008 her work was honored by Small Press Traffic with their annual Lifetime Achievement Award.[http://www.flim.com/spareroom/beverly-dahlen-david-abel.html Spare Room: Beverly Dahlen & David Abel] She also received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (2013).{{Cite web|url=https://www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/recipients/beverly-dahlen|title=Beverly Dahlen :: Foundation for Contemporary Arts|website=www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org|access-date=April 19, 2018}}
Selected publications
- {{Cite book|title=Out of the Third|publisher=Momo's Press|year=1974|location=San Francisco, CA}}
- {{Cite book|title=A letter at Easter|publisher=Effie's Press|year=1976|location=Emeryville, CA}}
- {{Cite book|title=The Egyptian poems : poems|publisher=Hipparchia Press|year=1983|location=Berkeley, Calif.}}
- {{Cite book|title=A reading 1-7|publisher=Momo's Press|year=1985|location=San Francisco}}
- {{Cite book|title=Something / Nothing A Talk Given at the Conference of Women Working In Literature, San Francisco State University|year=1985|location=San Francisco}} [pamphlet]
- {{Cite book|title=A reading 11-17|publisher=Potes & Poets Press|year=1989|location=Elmwood, Conn.}}
- {{Cite book|title=A reading 8-10|publisher=Chax Press|year=1992}} {{ISBN|978-0-925904-08-9}}
- {{Cite book|title=A-reading Spicer & eighteen sonnets|publisher=Chax Press|year=2004|location=Tucson}}
- A reading 18-20. Instance Press, 2006.
- {{Cite book|title=A reading: birds|publisher=little red leaves|year=2011}}
- {{Cite book|title=The rose: a poem|publisher=little red leaves|year=2013|location=Houston, Tex}}
- {{Cite book|title=Two Poems|publisher=little red leaves|year=2015|location=Houston, Tex.}}
References
External links
;Others on Dahlen:
- [http://xpoetics.blogspot.com/2009/02/tributes-to-beverly-dahlen.html Tributes to Beverly Dahlen]
- [http://ampoarchive.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/balls-bluff/ Emily Dickinson and the Battle of Ball’s Bluff] an appreciation of Dahlen by poet Benjamin Friedlander
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110718110600/http://chax.org/2006/09/reading-reading-18-20-by-beverly.html READING A READING 18-20] an appreciation by poet and publisher Charles Alexander
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20210329221548/http://www.somethingonpaper.org/issue-3/investigations-darling/ Narrative Perversion: Beverly Dahlen’s A Reading - Something on Paper]
;Interviews:
- [http://xpoetics.blogspot.com/2009/11/unending-reading-part-1-of-interview.html An Unending Reading: Part I of an interview] interview with Dahlen conducted via email in October 2009
- [http://xpoetics.blogspot.com/2009/11/beverly-dahlen-interview-part-two.html Thrilling to Throw One's Voice Out There: Part Two of an interview] with Dahlen conducted in October 2009 via email
;work by Dahlen:
- [http://articlejournal.net/2009/11/05/poem-and-picture-beverly-dahlen-and-laura-paulini Poem & Picture: Beverly Dahlen and Laura Paulini]
- [http://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal/archive/print_archive/bdnotes.html Working Notes]
- [http://home.jps.net/~nada/dahlen.htm In Memoriam: Daniel Davidson] epistolary tribute by Dahlen and Kevin Killian
- [http://jacketmagazine.com/37/stanley-by-dahlen.shtml Some notes on George Stanley’s Vancouver: A Poem]
;Audio files, readings & talks
- [http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/POG-Sound.php Recording from March 15, 2008]
- [http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Segue-BPC.html Recording from April 14, 2007]
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Category:Writers from the San Francisco Bay Area
Category:Writers from Portland, Oregon