Dale Going

Poet

New York, NY
New York US
Email: 
dalegoing@comcast.net
Website: 
dalegoing.com

Author's Bio

Dale Going is a poet & book artist. Her first full-length collection won the San Francisco State University Poetry Chapbook Award; her second was nominated for the Poets’ Prize. Her award-winning Em Press letterpress editions are archived in prominent library collections & the National Museum of Women in the Arts. She cofounded ROOMS, a quarterly zine for women writers & artists that for nearly a decade presented innovative work in its original form. She has curated exhibitions, collaborated with artists, taught, hosted a poetry radio show, written & performed in poets theater.

She received her M.A. in English/Creative Writing from San Francisco State University 1994, studying poetry with Kathleen Fraser and Myung Mi Kim; at the same time, she began her letterpress career as TA for Master Printer Peter Koch at the Press in Tuscany Alley.  She received her B.A. in English from Manhattanville College in 1975.

She lives in Manhattan and the Adirondack Park after a previous lifetime spent at the foot of Mt. Tamalpais in Northern California. 

Photo: Jesse Egner

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
The Grand Permission: New Writings on Poets and Motherhood (Wesleyan University Press, 2003)
,
Everything is Real Except the Obvious (EM Press, 1991)
Books:
The View They Arrange (Kelsey Street Press, 1994)
,
As/of the Whole (San Francisco State University Press, 1990)
Chapbooks:
Leaves from a Gradual (Potes & Poets Press, 2001)
,
She Pushes With Her Hands (EM Press, 1992)
,
Or Less (EM Press, 1991)
Journals:
Active in Airtime
,
Blood Orange Review
,
Chain
,
Five Fingers Review
,
Poetry Flash
,
Talisman
,
Transfer
,
Volt
Prizes won: 
  • Yaddo Residency, 2023
  • Soaring Gardens Residency, Wait List, 2023
  • Fund for Poetry Grants, 2011, 2006
  • Djerassi Resident Artists Program, 2000,1994. Diane Wood Middlebrook Fellowship, 1994
  • Western Book Exhibit Awards of Merit, Em Press, 1996.  Wing, Kathleen Fraser; Autumn sojourn, Brenda Hillman
  • California Arts Council, Artists Fellowship in Literature, 1996-97
  • Poets' Prize Nomination, The View They Arrange, 1994
  • Seattle Bumbershoot Festival, Best Letterpress Design, Em Press, 1992. She Pushes With Her Hands
  • San Francisco State University Poetry Chapbook Award, As/ Of The Whole, Judge: Brenda Hillman, 1990

 

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now: 
Excursive by Elizabeth Robinson, Notes from the Passenger by Gillian Conoley, Thank You for Being by Merle Bachman

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
American, Disabled, Feminist, Irish American, Italian American
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Troy, NY
New York
Raised in: 
Amsterdam, NY
New York
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Last update: Jun 02, 2023