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Poet and fiction writer Dennis
Trudell grew up outside Buffalo, N.Y., and has lived for many
years in Madison, Wisconsin. He won the Pollak Prize national
competition for Fragments in Us: Recent & Earlier Poems
(University of Wisconsin Press). The book received an
"Outstanding Achievement" citation from the Wisconsin Library
Association. Trudell edited Full Court: A Literary Anthology
of Basketball (Breakaway Books), considered the definitive
selection of short stories and poems about the sport. He has
published 10 chapbooks of poetry, most recently Lengthening
Shriek: Poems for the New Century. His poems have been
reprinted in over twenty anthologies. Trudell has published
poems in many journals, including Poetry, Georgia
Review, Ohio Review, New England Review,
TriQuarterly, Indiana Review, Harvard Magazine,
Ironwood, Prairie Schooner, Literary Review,
Green Mountains Review, North American Review,
The Progressive, Agni online.
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Fragments in Us:
Recent & Earlier Poems |
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Winner of the 1996 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry Selected by Philip Levine |
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Hardcover
ISBN: 0299152103 |
Paperback
ISBN: 0299152146 |
Publisher:
University of Wisconsin Press
September 1, 1996
73 pp |
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Full
Court:
A Literary Anthology of Basketball
Hardcover
ISBN: 1558215042
Publisher: Breakaway Books
September 1996
353 pp |
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Glorifying the wild rhythm and grace of the game, and the place basketball has in our hearts, this anthology includes writers such as John Updike, John Edgar
Wideman, Sherman Alexie, and Bobbie Ann Mason. |
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| Trudell's short
stories have been published in Prism International,
Ohio Review, Western Humanities Review,
Lillabulero, Kansas Review/Arkansas Quarterly,
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature, Chariton
Review, Quarry West, Notre Dame Review,
Ontario Review. More recent stories appeared in North
American Review ("Organic Shrapnel & Other Stories") and
Madison Magazine ("Kid Noir," winner of a $500
contest). His "Gook" was reprinted in an O. Henry Prize
volume, and his stories have twice received "Distinctive
Stories of the Year" listing in Best American Short
Stories plus a "Special Mention" in a Pushcart Prize
edition. |
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Available Poetry Chapbooks |
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Trudell studied writing under Paul Bennett at Denison
University in Ohio, and with Bryan MacMahon and Nelson
Algren at the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop,
earning an MA in 20th Century Literature and MFA in Fiction
Writing. He taught at the University of Hawaii, Susquehanna
University, Case Western Reserve University, and for 17
years at University of Wisconsin – Whitewater. In addition,
he has been a writer-in-residence for a brief period at
Bradley University and a semester at his alma mater, Denison
University. Trudell has also participated in
poets-in-the-schools programs in two states, taught
Extension Division courses at University of
Wisconsin-Madison and University of Chicago, led workshops
for seniors, and taught and tutored at a state and federal
prison. He is married to research archivist and genealogist
Dee Grimsrud; the two have 7 grandchildren in Madison and
Arizona. He owns more VHS and DVD's of movies, many of
no recent year, than his dozen-plus shelves of them can
hold. Dennis Trudell has currently under submission a
poetry collection from the last decade. He is assembling a
fiction manuscript, including a novella and both published
and as-yet unpublished short stories and short-short
stories. He continues writing new work. He'd like to believe
he occasionally rises to Bernard's Malamud's advice: "Write
your heart out." He values writing that calls for a more
just, humane U.S. and world community than often seems their
present direction.
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