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Daniel Tobin [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
Boston, MA
Massachusetts US
Email: 
daniel_tobin@emerson.edu
Bio: 

Daniel Tobin is the author of nine books of poems, including From Nothing, winner of the Julia Ward Howe Award, The Stone in the Air, his suite of versions from the German of Paul Celan, and most recently Blood Labors, named one of the Best Poetry Books of the year by the New York Times. He is also the author of the critical studies Awake in America, Passage to the Center: Imagination and the Sacred in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney, and On Serious Earth, forthcoming in 2019. Tobin has edited The Book of Irish American Poetry from the Eighteenth Century to the Present, Light in Hand: Selected Early Poems of Lola Ridge, Poet’s Work, Poet’s Play: Essays on the Practice and the Art (with Pimone Triplett) and To The Many: Collected Early Poems of Lola Ridge, which received a Special Commendation from the Poetry Society. His poetry has won the "The Discovery/The Nation Award," The Robert Penn Warren Award, the Robert Frost Fellowship, the Katherine Bakeless Nason Prize, the Stephen J. Meringoff Award, the Massachusetts Book Award, the Pushcart Prize, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, among other honors. He teaches at Emerson College in Boston.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Born in: 
Brooklyn, NY
New York
Raised in: 
Brooklyn
Website: 
https://www.danieltobin.org [2]
Prizes won: 

"The Discovery/The Nation Award," The Robert Penn Warren Award, the Robert Frost Fellowship, the Katherine Bakeless Nason Prize. the Massachusetts Book Award in Poetry, the Julia Ward Howe Award, The Stephen P. Meringogg Award, Creative writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, among other honors.

 

Identifies as: 
Irish American

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