"If there is a better young poet than Denise Duhamel in the USA, don't tell me. I can't take it, I can barely take her! Frank O'Hara said something about only 3 American poets being better than the movies, but I think Duhamel would make him add a fourth."

-Bill Knot

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DENISE DUHAMEL

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some modern prose poetry and small biography

!!! DENISE ON TELEVISION !!!

On sunday, September 26, Denise Duhamel will be featured (along with 20 other poets)on PBS's "Fooling With Words (with Bill Moyers)" The two hour show will be aired at 9pm eastern. Please watch if you can! She may just be on for a few minutes so get your snacks ready ahead of time and try not to blink, okay? Other poets featured are Mark Doty, Sharon Olds, Robert Pinsky, Amiri Baraka, Kurtis Lamkin...

you can also check out the website .

Denise Duhamel is the recipient of a 1989 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and a 1993 winner of Poets & Writers' "Writers Exchange" award. She has taught poetry at New York City's West Side Y. Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA, The American University in Washington DC, and Lycoming College in WIlliamsport, PA. Denise has recently won first place in the CRAB ORCHARD AWARD SERIES in poetry, sponsored by the Crab Orchard Review. As a result of this, Southern Illinois University Press will published her "The Star-Spangled Banner" It is now available! She is married to poet Nick Carbo.

NEWLY ADDED!
Interview with Denise by Thomas Fink

Here are five books by Denise, to read selections from each
one click on the book:

NEW!! The Star Spangled Banner NEW!!

Denise writes about her realtionship with her husband who is of a different race, culture and class, and of course much more.

The Woman With Two Vaginas

Erotic poetry based on eskimo mythology

Kinky

About the lives of barbie dolls

Girl Soldier

Prose poetry with feminist overtones

Exquisite Politics

Co-written with Maureen Seaton issues of sexual and political identity

Coming soon: excerpts from Smile! and How The Sky Fell.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

LINKS

MEET DENISE!!

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Email me at hickeyunderworld@hotmail.com in the meantime.

this page is dedicated to seth for introducing me to Denise's work

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