Dara Barrois/Dixon
{{short description|American poet}}
{{BLP sources|date=March 2012}}
{{Infobox writer
| spouse = James Tate
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1949|12|30}}
| occupation = Poet
| birth_place = Hôtel-Dieu, New Orleans, Louisiana
| children = Emily Pettit
}}
Dara Barrois/Dixon (Dara Wier) (born December 30, 1949){{Cite web |last=Poets |first=Academy of American |title=Dara Barrois/Dixon |url=https://poets.org/poet/dara-barroisdixon |access-date=2024-04-16 |website=Poets.org |language=en}} is an American poet and author. She has received awards from the Lannan Foundation, American Poetry Review, The Poetry Center Book Award, Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts and Massachusetts Cultural Council.{{Citation needed|date=April 2024}} She has been poet-in-residence at the University of Montana, University of Texas Austin, Emory University, and the University of Utah; she was the 2005 Louis Rubin chair at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia. She lives and works in Factory Hollow in Western Massachusetts. Emily Pettit and Guy Gerard Pettit are her daughter and son.
Biography
Barrois/Dixon was born in Hôtel-Dieu, New Orleans, Louisiana, raised in Belle Chasse and Naomi, Louisiana, attended Catholic grade schools in New Orleans and Gretna, Louisiana, and high school in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, attended Louisiana State University and Longwood University. She received a Master of Fine Arts degree in poetry from Bowling Green University, 1974.
She has lived in Louisiana, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Ohio, Texas, Alabama, New Mexico, Colorado, Montana, and Massachusetts, and spent time in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and Mississippi. She writes poetry, prose and a column, "INSIDE UNDIVIDED", on chance, fate and context, from 2010 to 2015 for Flying Object's (arts non-profit) website, and from 2015 on the literary magazine jubilat's website. She has taught poetry workshops and seminars at Bowling Green University, University of Pittsburgh, Hollins University, Emory University, University of Montana, University of Massachusetts Amherst and for summer or winter workshops in Aspen, Key West, Santa Fe, Virginia, Bennington, and the University of Massachusetts Juniper Workshops (which she co-founded in 2003 as a part of the Juniper Initiative which she co-directs).
Barrois/Dixon was married to poet James Tate until his death in 2015.{{Cite web |title=Acclaimed poet, UMass professor James Tate dies at 71 | the Recorder |url=http://www.recorder.com/home/17684626-95/acclaimed-poet-umass-professor-james-tate-dies-at-71 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20150709165405/http://www.recorder.com/home/17684626-95/acclaimed-poet-umass-professor-james-tate-dies-at-71 |archive-date=2015-07-09 |access-date=2015-07-09}} Her daughter from a previous marriage is poet Emily Pettit.{{Cite web |date=2022-04-05 |title=Ten Questions for Dara Barrois/Dixon |url=https://www.pw.org/content/ten_questions_for_dara_barroisdixon |access-date=2024-04-16 |website=Poets & Writers |language=en}} They often work together.{{Cite web |last=Mishler |first=Peter |date=2023-11-28 |title=Dara Barrois/Dixon on the Lived Poetry of the Late James Tate |url=https://lithub.com/dara-barrois-dixon-on-the-lived-poetry-of-the-late-james-tate/ |access-date=2024-04-16 |website=Literary Hub |language=en-US}}
Work
Dara Barrois/Dixon has published several books and her work has also been included in recent volumes of Pushcart Prize Anthology and Best American Poetry. She has also been published in jubilat, "B O D Y", FOU, Maggy, Make, Matters, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Volt, Hollins Critic, Now Culture, LIT, Conduit, Bat City Review, Salt River, Telephone, OH NO, glitterpony, The Nation, Open City, notnostrums, The Blue Letter, Superstition Review, Fairy Tale Review, Mississippi Review, Massachusetts Review, Denver Quarterly, slope, Poetry Time, Ink Node, Sprung Formal, Lungful, Scythe, Tin House, The Baffler, Mead, Similar Peaks, Io, and other publications. Her poems have appeared on the Academy of American Poets poem-a-day feature, the PEN website, {{proper name|poemflow}}.
Bibliography
- Blood, Hook & Eye, University of Texas Press, 1977, 1980 {{ISBN|0-292-70720-7}}
- The 8-Step Grapevine, CMU Press, 1980 {{ISBN|0-915604-38-8}}
- All You Have in Common, CMU, 1984 {{ISBN|0-88748-005-5}}
- The Book of Knowledge, CMU, 1987 {{ISBN|0-88748-067-5}}
- Blue for the Plough, CMU, 1990 {{ISBN|0-88748-137-X}}
- Our Master Plan, CMU, 1999 {{ISBN|0-88748-294-5}}
- Voyages in English, CMU, 2001 {{ISBN|0-88748-351-8}}
- Hat on a Pond, Verse Press, 2001 {{ISBN|0-9703672-6-0}}
- Reverse Rapture, Verse Press, 2005 {{ISBN|0-9746353-4-0}}
- Remnants of Hannah, Wave Books, 2006 {{ISBN|978-1-933517-08-7}}
- Selected Poems, Wave Books, 2009 {{ISBN|978-1-933517-38-4}}
- A Civilian's Journal of the War Years, The Song Cave, 2011
- You Good Thing, Wave Books, 2013 {{ISBN|978-1-933517-67-4}}
- In the Still of the Night, Wave Books, 2017 {{ISBN|978-1-940696-57-7}}
- I Would Like to Return the Scarf to You in Good Condition, Small Anchor Books, forthcoming
- You Stare as if Staring Were the Start of All Stars, Pilot Books, forthcoming
- The Usual Ratio Between Banality and Wonder, Rain Taxi, 2016
- In the Still of the Night, Wave Books, 2017
ISBN 9781940696577 - Tolstoy Killed Anna Karenina, Wave Books, 2022 ISBN
References
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External links
- [https://www.wavepoetry.com/products/dara-barrois-dixon Dara Barrois/Dixon's author page at Wave Books]
- [http://www.wavepoetry.com/catalog/77-selected-poems Dara Wier's Selected Poems]
- [http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/1330 Dara Wier at The Academy of American Poets]
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Category:University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty
Category:Louisiana State University alumni
Category:Writers from New Orleans