Donald Dunbar

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Donald Dunbar (born 1983) is an American poet. He was raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan and earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. After completing his MFA in Poetry at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Dunbar lived alone at a cabin in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and travelled through Western Europe, living in Germany and Portugal.{{cite web |title=A Poet in Our Midst |url=http://www.oregonculinaryinstitute.com/2011/01/21/a-poet-in-our-midst/ |publisher=Oregon Culinary Institute |accessdate=3 March 2013 |author=Oregon Culinary Institute |pages=1 |url-status=usurped |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004004403/http://www.oregonculinaryinstitute.com/2011/01/21/a-poet-in-our-midst/ |archivedate=4 October 2013 }} He now lives in Portland, Oregon where he co-curates the reading series If Not For Kidnap{{cite web|last=Schraer|first=Jacob|title=Poetry Powerhouse|url=http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/poetry-powerhouse/Content?oid=7509637|work=Portland Mercury|accessdate=4 March 2013|date=November 7, 2012}} and teaches at the Oregon Culinary Institute.

His collection "Eyelid Lick" was awarded the Fence Modern Poets Series Prize, and has been described as "being like given a driving tour through someone’s dream, and the dream is continually re-centering and referring back to itself,"{{cite web|title=Literature: Trust School|url=http://bombsite.com/issues/1000/articles/7029|publisher=BOMBLOG|accessdate=3 March 2013|author=Jonathan Aprea}} and "borne out of individual psychedelic experience into a world of streaming communication."{{cite web|title=Fence Portal: Eyelid Lick|url=http://www.fenceportal.org/?page_id=4406|publisher=Fence Books|accessdate=3 March 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121127142013/http://www.fenceportal.org/?page_id=4406|archive-date=27 November 2012|url-status=dead}} Huffington Post called it "ripping good book that's nearly impossible to put down or forget" while conceding it would appeal most to users of psychedelic drugs.{{cite web|last=Abramson|first=Seth|title=November 2012 Contemporary Poetry Reviews|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/seth-abramson/november-2012-contemporar_b_2214445.html|work=Huffington Post|authorlink=Seth Abramson|date=2012-11-30}}