{{short description|American poet}}
thumb|David Yezzi '''David Dalton Yezzi''' (born 1966) is an American poet, editor, actor,<ref>Interview (Unterberg Poetry Center) with Ernest Hibert 'Fiction' The Cortland Review issue 32 June 2006</ref> and professor. He currently teaches poetry in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.
==Life== Yezzi was born in Albany, New York<ref name=cort>[http://www.cortland review.com/issue/32/yezzi_i.html]{{Dead link|date=July 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} An Interview with David Yezzi by Ernest Hilbert, ''The Cortland Review'', Issue 32, June 2006, accessed February 1, 2007</ref> He attended The Doane Stuart School.<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://albanypoets.com/2013/03/frequency-north-returns-with-kaya-oakes-and-david-yezzi/|title = Frequency North Returns with Kaya Oakes and David Yezzi|date = 12 March 2013|access-date = 26 October 2021|archive-date = 10 August 2020|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200810075502/https://albanypoets.com/2013/03/frequency-north-returns-with-kaya-oakes-and-david-yezzi/|url-status = dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://danielnester.medium.com/poetry-on-vinyl-some-haystacks-dont-even-have-any-needle-85c3503c51d7|title=Poetry on Vinyl: Some Haystacks Don't Even Have Any Needle|first=Daniel|last=Nester|date=July 22, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.timesunion.com/living/article/Making-a-life-s-work-from-words-4755668.php|title=Making a life's work from words|first=Elizabeth Floyd|last=Mair|date=August 23, 2013|website=Times Union}}</ref> Yezzi earned a bachelor's degree in theater from Carnegie Mellon University and a master of fine arts degree in creative writing from Columbia University School of the Arts.<ref name=y/>
==Career== Yezzi was Director of the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y in New York City from 2001 to 2005 and has worked as executive editor and, then, poetry editor of ''The New Criterion'', associate editor of ''Parnassus: Poetry in Review'', and was on the staff of ''The New York Observer''.<ref name="y">[https://web.archive.org/web/20030419214337/http://www.92y.org/content/david_yezzi.asp] Google Cache of biographical sketch page of David Yezzi at 92nd Street Y Web site, accessed February 1, 2007</ref> He is a professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and a former editor of The Hopkins Review. Yezzi was a co-founder of the San Francisco theater company, Thick Description, and has performed in works by Shakespeare, Shaw, Brecht, Goethe, Williams, and others in the United States and Europe.<ref name=y/> In March 2010, Verse Theater Manhattan presented Yezzi's evening of verse monologues, ''Dirty Dan & Other Travesties,'' at the Bowery Poetry Club, with Yezzi performing "Tomorrow & Tomorrow." In October 2021, he performed the title role in The Baltimore Shakespeare Factory's production of ''King Lear''.<ref name=review>[https://mdtheatreguide.com/2021/10/theatre-review-king-lear-at-baltimore-shakespeare-factory/ MD Theatre Review]</ref> He is a 2024-2026 member of the acting company at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company.
In 1998, he was awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University (1998–2000).<ref name=y/>
His poems have been published in literary journals including ''The Atlantic'', ''Poetry'', ''The Yale Review'', ''The Paris Review'', ''The New Republic'', ''Poetry Daily'' and ''The New Criterion''. His literary essays and reviews have appeared in ''The New York Times Book Review'', ''The New York Sun'', ''The New Yorker'', ''The Wall Street Journal'', ''The (London) Times Literary Supplement'', ''Poetry'' and elsewhere.<ref name=y/>
Yezzi's poem "The Call" was included in ''The Best American Poetry 2006'' and "Minding Rites" appeared in ''The Best American Poetry 2012''.
In December 2008, ''Azores'' was chosen as a ''Slate'' magazine "Best Book of 2008." In 2015, ''Birds of the Air'' was a finalist for the Poets' Prize. ''Late Romance'' was an editors' selection at The New York Times Book Review in 2023. In 2022, he was a short-term visiting fellow at Jesus College, Oxford. He is a 2024 [https://www.jamesmerrillhouse.org/fellows James Merrill House] Fellow and a 2025-6 [https://www.gf.org/stories/announcing-the-2025-guggenheim-fellows Guggenheim] Fellow in poetry.
==Bibliography==
===Non-fiction=== * ''[https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250016584/lateromance/ Late Romance: Anthony Hecht--A Poet's Life]'' (St. Martin's Press, 2023), 464 pages, {{ISBN| 978-1250016584}}
===Poetry=== * ''[http://www.measurepress.com/measure/index.php/catalog/books/more-things-heaven/ More Things in Heaven]'' (Measure Press, 2022), 156 pages, {{ISBN|978-1939574336}} * ''[https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/B/bo43498353.html Black Sea]'' (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2018), poetry, 74 pages, {{ISBN|978-0887486357}} * ''[https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/B/bo43498263.html Birds of the Air]'' (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2013), poetry, 90 pages, {{ISBN|978-0887485718}} * ''[https://www.ohioswallow.com/book/Azores Azores] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211105102350/https://www.ohioswallow.com/book/Azores |date=2021-11-05 }}'' (Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 2008), poetry, 56 pages, {{ISBN|978-0-8040-1113-6}} * ''[https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810151451/the-hidden-model/ The Hidden Model]'' (TriQuarterly/Northwestern University Press, 2003), poetry, 96 pages, {{ISBN|978-0810151451}}
===Chapbooks=== * ''Two Ranges [Vertical]'' by Ernest Hilbert and David Yezzi (Nemean Lion Press, 2013), hand-sewn, signed-limited concertina book * ''Tomorrow & Tomorrow'', with an afterword by Denis Donoghue (Exot Books, 2012), {{ISBN|978-0-9844249-7-9}} * ''Such Root Satisfaction, 3 X 5'' [''Three by David Yezzi, Five by Ernest Hilbert''] (Nemean Lion Press, 2010) * ''A Fletching of Hackles: Fresh Verse by Ernest Hilbert and David Yezzi'' (Nemean Lion Press, 2009) * ''Sad Is Eros'' (Aralia Press, 2003)
===Anthologies (edited)=== * ''[https://www.ohioswallow.com/book/The+Swallow+Anthology+of+New+American+Poets The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211105105208/https://www.ohioswallow.com/book/The%20Swallow%20Anthology%20of%20New%20American%20Poets |date=2021-11-05 }}'' (Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 2009), poetry, 376 pages, {{ISBN|978-0-8040-1121-1}}
;List of poems {|class='wikitable sortable' width='90%' |- !width=25%|Title !|Year !|First published !|Reprinted/collected |- |Sugar on snow |2019 |{{cite journal |author=Yezzi, David |date=July 2019 |title=Sugar on snow |journal=The Atlantic |volume=324 |issue=1 |pages=38 |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/david-yezzi-sugar-on-snow/590635/ <!--accessdate=2019-10-24-->}} | |- |}
===Plays=== * ''[https://exotbooks.bigcartel.com/product/schnauzer-a-play-in-one-act-by-david-yezzi Schnauzer: A Play In One Act]'' (EXOT Books, 2019), Play-In-Verse, 82 pages, {{ISBN|978-0989898447 }}
=== Libretti === * His libretto for a new chamber opera by composer David Conte, ''Firebird Motel'', premiered in 2003 and was released on CD by Arsis.<ref name=y/>
==References== <references />
==External links== {{Wikiquote}} * [http://www.92y.org/content/david_yezzi.asp] Biographical sketch of Yezzi at the 92nd Street Y Web site, also available on a Google cache at [https://web.archive.org/web/20030419214337/http://www.92y.org/content/david_yezzi.asp] * [https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/21/books/review/21YEZZIL.html?ex=1170478800&en=f39046993abadbb1&ei=5070 "An Expert on Human Failings" brief article] on Anthony Hecht in ''The New York Times Book Review'' * [http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Bacon-s-theater-of-the-absurd-3962 "Bacon's Theater of the Absurd"] on the paintings of Francis Bacon in ''The New Criterion'' * [http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/the-amis-country-3128 "The Amis Country"] on the poetry of Kingsley Amis in ''The New Criterion'' * [http://www.everseradio.com/cough-by-david-yezzi/ "Cough"] * [https://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200904/poem-fire "False Fire"] * [https://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200705/yezzi-poem "Acceptance Speech"] {{Authority control}}
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