virtual artists collective poetry
Larry O. Dean was born and raised in Flint, Michigan. He attended the University of Michigan, during which time he won three Hopwood Awards in Creative Writing, an honor shared with fellow poets Robert Hayden, Jane Kenyon, and Frank O’Hara, among others. He is author of numerous chapbooks, including I Am Spam (2004), a series of poems “inspired” by junk email; his poetry has also been internationally anthologized. In addition to writing, he is a singer-songwriter, performing solo as well as with his current band, The Injured Parties; he has released many critically-acclaimed CD’s, including Fables in Slang (2001) with Post Office, and Gentrification Is Theft (2002) with The Me Decade. Dean was a 2004 recipient of the Hands on Stanzas Gwendolyn Brooks Award, presented by the Poetry Center of Chicago. Contact him at larryodean.com.
作者简介：赖里·O·迪恩，密西根州夫林特人。曾就读于密西根大学，期间获霍普沃德创造性写作奖（与诗友罗伯特·海登、简·肯娅和弗兰克·奥哈拉等人共同获得）。有多部诗册出版，包括《我是香火腿》（2004）和一系列由垃圾邮件激发“灵感”的诗作；迪恩是歌手兼词作者，既单独表演也和他目前的“受伤的群体”乐队一起演出；他已发行了很多受到评论界赞扬的唱片，包括邮局乐队的《俚语寓言》（2001）和“我时代”乐队的《绅士化是窃贼》。迪恩是由芝加哥诗歌中心颁发的格温多琳·布鲁克斯奖2004年度获得者。
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