Norman Dubie

Norman Dubie [1945–2023] is the author of thirty books of poetry, most recently Robert Schumann Is Mad Again. His previous volume, The Quotations of Bone, won the 2016 Griffin International Poetry Prize. His other books of poetry include The Volcano, Insomniac Liar of Topo, Ordinary Mornings of a Coliseum, and The Mercy Seat: Collected & New Poems, 1967–2001, all from Copper Canyon Press. His poems have appeared in such magazines as The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, Narrative, Blackbird, Lake Effect, Bombay Gin, The Paris Review, and Fiddlehead. He is the recipient of many fellowships from granting institutions including the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts; he was also awarded the Bess Hokin Prize from the Poetry Foundation. Mr. Dubie received the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Poetry in 2002. In 1975, he founded the MFA program at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, where he lived and taught as a Regents’ Professor of English until his passing on February 20, 2023.