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Joseph Duemer (DEE mur), Poet
(street address) 38 Mill Street
(city&state) South Colton, NY 13687
(phone number) 315-262-2466
(e.mail address) duemer@polaris.clarkson.edu Joseph Duemer was born in 1951 in San Diego, but grew up and went to college in Seattle, then Iowa City. He now lives with his wife Carole and four dogs in South Colton, New York. He has an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and is an Associate Professor of Humanities at Clarkson University, where he teaches creative writing, literature, and humanities. He received NEA Creative Writing Fellowships in 1984 and 1992, and in 1985 an 1995 grants from the NEH to pursue literary studies. Individual poems have received awards from the Associated Writing Programs, as well as the Chester Jones and H.G. Rhinehart Foundations. He was a Bread Loaf Fellow in 1989, and has received residency fellowships from Yaddo and the Blue Mountain Center. Duemer has also served on the staff of the Catskill Poetry Workshop. In 1991, he served as a screening judge for the Associated Writing Programs Award Series in Poetry and he is currently the General Editor of the AWP's Intro Awards. Duemer has organized sessions and presented papers at several conferences, including an Associated Writing Programs panel, "Censorship and the Arts," and Modern Language Association Special Sessions on Wallace Stevens (1991) and Contemporary American poetry (1992), as well as another paper on Stevens and Donald Justice in 1996. Duemer has publishd two chapbooks, Fool's Paradise (1980) and The Light of Common Day (1985), as well as two full-length collections, Customs from the University of Georgia Press Contemporary Poetry Series (1987), and Static from Owl Creek Press (1996). Poems of his have appeared in numerous magazines, including Poetry Northwest, Antioch Review, New England Review, The Iowa Review, American Poetry Review, Tar River Poetry, The Denver Quarterly, Manoa, Carolina Quarterly, and Boulevard. He has recently given readings at St. Lawrence University, where he served as Poet in Residence in 1990, Long Beach City College, the University of California at Riverside, Open Books and Elliot Bay Books in Seattle, University of California at Riverside, Clark College, Portland State University, University of Oregon at Ashland, University of Arizona at Tempe, Mt. Hood Community College, and at the Elizabeth Bishop Festival in Worcester. Duemer is poetry editor of The Wallace Stevens Journal and a co-book review editor for Poetry International, a new journal published by San Diego State University Press; his criticism has appeared in The Journal, Concerning Poetry, Literary Magazine Review, The Dictionary of Literary Biography, The Encyclopedia of Romanticism, The Encyclopedia of the Essay, Manoa, and the New England Review. In 1994 he hosted an hour-long radio program on North Country Public Radio (WSLU-FM) with Ceslaw Milosz, and beginning in 1995 he has written and recorded a monthly radio essay for the same station. He is currently editing Making Musics, a collection of essays for Garland on collaborations between composers and poets. With the poet Jim Simmerman, he has co-edited an anthology of contemporary poems about dogs, Dog Music, published by St. Martin's Press (1996), with profits going to animal welfare organizations. He has had poems set to music by the composers Beth Weimann and David Rakowski, with performances in New York, Boston, London, Rome, and at UC Davis and the Sacramento New Music Festival. For three years Duemer has organized Writers Harvest benefits to combat hunger in upstate New York. He is currently at work on two collections of poetry, Animal Faith and Storm Histories, and a collection of prose poems.(publication credits) American Poetry Review, The Iowa Review, Antioch Review
(list of works) The Light of Common Day, Windhover Press (1985) Customs, U of Georgia Press (1987) Static, Owl Creek Press (1996) Dog Music (co-ed, 1996)
(where written up) Chelsea (1997), Small Press Review, Library Journal, the New Yorker
(contemporary poets important to respondent) William Matthews, Hayden Carruth, William Bronk, Claire Bateman.
(poets of yesteryear important to respondent) John Donne, William Wordsworth, William Blake, William Carlos Williams!
(critics important to respondent) I tend to prefer the criticism of poets.
(tastes in poetry) I am interested in the complicated relations between music and poetry, but I am skeptical of the claims of the more conservative proponants of the New Formalism, believing that all good poetry is formal.
(description of criticism) My reviews have appeared in The Wallace Stevens Journal, Poetry International, The New England Review, and the Journal. I tend to like poetry that engages ideas at an emotional level, and emotions at an intellectual level.
Click here to read "For Wittgenstein," a poem by Duemer. . .
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