Dolores Hayden

Poet

Guilford, CT
Connecticut US

Author's Bio

Exuberance, a book length sequence of poems set in the early years of aviation, was published by Red Hen Press in 2019, and was a finalist for the Connecticut Book Award and for the Foreword Indies Poetry Award. Poems have appeared in recent issues of Poetry, Ecotone, The Common, and Yale Review. I’ve been a poetry fellow at VCCA and Djerassi. I write nonfiction about American places, including The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History. As a professor at Yale University I taught “Poets’ Landscapes.”

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
The Best American Poetry 2009 (Scribner, 2009)
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Letters to the World (Red Hen Press, 2008)
Books:
Exuberance (Red Hen Press, 2019)
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Nymph, Dun, and Spinner (David Robert Books, 2010)
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American Yard (David Robert Books, 2004)
Journals:
American Scholar
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Shenandoah
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Slate
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Yale Review
Prizes won: 

Poetry Society of America: The Writer/Emily Dickinson Award; New England Poetry Club: Boyle/Farber Award, Barbara Bradley Award, and Firman Houghton Award; Best American Poetry 2009. Fellowships from NEA, Guggenheim, Radcliffe Institute.

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Elizabeth Bishop

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
American
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Born in: 
New York, NY
New York
Raised in: 
New Rochelle, NY
New York
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Last update: Jan 24, 2024