Kim Addonizio

{{short description|American poet and novelist (born 1954)}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Kim Addonizio

| image = Kim Addonizio at the Sierra Poetry Festival 2025 (crop).jpg

| caption = Addonizio at Sierra Poetry Festival 2025

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1954|7|31}}

| birth_place = Washington, D.C., U.S

| citizenship = American

| education = Georgetown University
San Francisco State University (BA, MA)

| occupation = Poet, novelist

| mother = Pauline Betz

| father = Bob Addie

| footnotes = {{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/pauline-betz-addie-1940s-tennis-champion-dies-at-91/2011/06/01/AGRMmmGH_story.html|title=Pauline Betz Addie, 1940s tennis champion, dies at 91|newspaper=Washington Post|language=en|access-date=2018-08-15}}

| children = Aya Cash

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Kim Addonizio (born July 31, 1954) is an American poet and novelist.{{cite news|title=Kim Addonizio|url=http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/kim-addonizio|access-date=August 14, 2015|publisher=Academy of American Poets}}

Life

Addonizio was born in Washington, D.C., United States. She is the daughter of tennis champion Pauline Betz and sports writer Bob Addie (born Addonizio).

She briefly attended Georgetown University and American University before dropping out of both.{{cite book|last=Addonizio|first=Kim|title=Ordinary genius : a guide for the poet within|year=2009|publisher=W.W. Norton|location=New York|isbn=978-0-393-33416-6|pages=[https://archive.org/details/ordinarygeniusgu00addo/page/55 55–56]|edition=1st|url=https://archive.org/details/ordinarygeniusgu00addo/page/55}} She later moved to San Francisco and received a B.A. and M.A. from San Francisco State University. She has taught at San Francisco State University and Goddard College.{{cite web|url=http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/725 |title=Kim Addonizio - Poet | Academy of American Poets |website=Poets.org |date=1954-07-31 |access-date=2017-01-16}}

She has a daughter, actress Aya Cash, and currently lives in Oakland, California.

Awards

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Works

=Poetry=

  • {{cite book| title=The Philosopher's Club| publisher=BOA Editions| year=1994| isbn=978-1-880238-02-8 }}
  • {{cite book| title=Jimmy & Rita| publisher=BOA Editions| year=1997| isbn=978-1-880238-41-7 }}
  • [http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16213 "What Do Women Want", poets.org]
  • {{cite book| title=Tell Me| publisher=BOA Editions| year=2000| isbn=978-1-880238-91-2 }}
  • [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=30011 "Scary Movies", Poetry, March 2000]
  • [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=31069 "Eating Together", Poetry, June 2003]
  • {{cite book| title=What is this Thing Called Love| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vJC97sRQiikC&q=Kim+Addonizio| publisher=W. W. Norton & Company| year=2003| isbn=978-0-393-05726-3 }}
  • [http://www.threepennyreview.com/samples/addonizio_su07.html "Lucifer at the Starlite", Three Penny Review, Summer 2007] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303231405/http://www.threepennyreview.com/samples/addonizio_su07.html |date=2016-03-03 }}
  • {{cite book| title=Lucifer at the Starlite| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ubc66LYF95kC| publisher=W. W. Norton & Company| year=2009| isbn=978-0-393-06852-8 }}
  • [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=182625 "The First Line is the Deepest", Poetry, January 2009]
  • [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=182823 "Weaponry", Poetry, February 2009]
  • {{cite book| title=My Black Angel| publisher=Stephen F. Austin State University Press | year=2014| isbn=978-1-62288-037-9 }}
  • {{cite book| title=Wild Nights, New & Selected Poems| publisher=Bloodaxe| year=2015| isbn=978-1780372709 }}
  • Now We're Getting Somewhere (W.W. Norton & Company, 2022)

=Fiction=

  • {{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2suvOKe6fV4C&q=Kim+Addonizio| title=In the box called pleasure: stories| publisher=FC2| year=1999| isbn=978-1-57366-081-5 }}
  • {{cite book| title=Little Beauties| url=https://archive.org/details/littlebeautiesno00addo| url-access=registration| quote=Kim Addonizio.| publisher=Simon & Schuster| year=2005| isbn=978-0-7432-7456-2 }}
  • {{cite book| title=My Dreams Out in the Street| url=https://archive.org/details/mydreamsoutinstr00addo| url-access=registration| quote=Kim Addonizio.| publisher=Simon & Schuster| year=2007| isbn=978-0-7432-9772-1 }}
  • {{cite book| title=The Palace of Illusions| quote=Kim Addonizio.| publisher=Soft Skull| year=2014| isbn=978-1-59376-542-2 }}

=Non-fiction=

  • {{cite book| title=Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within| publisher=W.W. Norton| year=2009}}
  • {{cite book| title=The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry| url=https://archive.org/details/poetscompaniongu00addo| url-access=registration| quote=Kim Addonizio.| author1=Kim Addonizio |author2=Dorianne Laux|author-mask1=2 |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company| year=1997| isbn=978-0-393-31654-4 }}
  • {{cite book| title=Dorothy Parker's Elbow: Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos |editor1=Kim Addonizio |editor-mask1=2 |editor2=Cheryl Dumesnil| publisher=Diane Publishing Co| year=2002| isbn=978-0-7567-9159-9 }}
  • {{cite book| title=Best New Poets 2009: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers |editor1=Kim Addonizio |editor-mask1=2 |editor2=Jeb Livingood|publisher=University of Virginia Press| year=2009| isbn=978-0-9766296-4-1 }}

=Anthologies=

  • {{cite book| title=180 more: extraordinary poems for every day| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LBD3cfm2_dcC&q=Kim+Addonizio&pg=RA1-PA259| chapter=Chicken| editor=Billy Collins| publisher=Random House, Inc.| year=2005| isbn=978-0-8129-7296-2 }}
  • {{cite book| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sdxJOtDmPywC&q=Kim+Addonizio&pg=PA1| chapter=Cranes in August| title=Poets against the War| editor1=Sam Hamill |editor2=Sally Anderson| publisher=Thunder's Mouth Press| year=2003| isbn=978-1-56025-539-0 }}
  • {{cite book| title=The best American poetry, 2006| editor1=Billy Collins |editor2=David Lehman| publisher=Scribner Poetry| year=2006| isbn=978-0-7432-5759-6| url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780743229678}}
  • {{cite book| title=Three West Coast Women| author1=Kim Addonizio |author2=Laurie Duesing |author3=Dorianne Laux |author-mask1=2 |publisher=Five Fingers Poetry| year=1987 }}

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