David Dodd Lee


David Dodd Lee is an American poet, editor, and educator.

Biography

David Dodd Lee grew up in Michigan. He earned his undergraduate degree in painting and art history in 1986 and the MFA degree in creative writing in 1993, both from Western Michigan University. He is also a painter and collage artist. He is currently a professor of creative writing at Indiana University at South Bend and lives on the banks of the St. Joseph River in northern Indiana.

Poetry and editing

Lee is the author of eleven full-length books of poems and a chapbook. He has published poems in many literary journals, including The Nation, Field, Denver Quarterly, CutBank, Gulf Coast, Green Mountains Review, Barrow Street, Cimarron Review, Pleiades, Chattahoochee Review, ', Sycamore Review, ', Quarterly West, Prairie Schooner, and American Literary Review. Also a fiction writer, he has published stories in , Green Mountains Review, and West Branch.
Lee is the director of 42 Miles Press, which is based in the Department of English at Indiana University South Bend. He serves as the judge for the annual 42 Miles Press Poetry Award. Winners of the book award include Mary Ann Samyn, Carrie Oeding, Erica Bernheim, Bill Rasmovicz, Tracey Knapp, Betsy Andrews, Kimberly Lambright, and Nate Pritts. Lee has twice served as the editor of SHADE, an annual anthology published by , and the former poetry editor of Passages North and Third Coast. In addition, he has guest edited recent editions of and Passages North. He is also the editor of The Other Life, The Selected Poems of Herbert Scott. Together with Donna Munro, he was editor of Half Moon Bay poetry chapbooks, which published titles by Franz Wright and Hugh Seidman, among others.
David Dodd Lee has published two books of erasure poems derived from the poetry of John Ashbery. Ashbery was receptive to this venture and wrote a blurb for the second book, And Others, Vaguer Presences.

Poetry

  • Downsides of Fish Culture
  • Wilderness
  • Arrow Pointing North
  • Abrupt Rural
  • The Nervous Filaments
  • Orphan, Indiana
  • Sky Booths in the Breath Somewhere,: the Ashbery Erasure Poems
  • The Coldest Winter On Earth
  • Animalities
  • And Others, Vaguer Presences: A Book of Ashbery Erasure Poems
  • ''Unlucky Animals, Erasures, Dictionary Sonnets, and Collages''

    Anthologies

  • Shade 2004, Editor
  • Shade 2006, Editor
  • The Other Life: Selected Poems of Herbert Scott, Editor