David Yezzi’s latest books of poetry are Black Sea (2018) and More Things in Heaven: New and Selected Poems (2022). His verse play Schnauzer, produced by the Baltimore Poets Theater, was published by Exot Books (2019). A former director of the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y in New York, he is currently writing a biography of the poet Anthony Hecht.
David Yezzi (he/him/his)
Professor
dyezzi@jhu.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Gilman 76
Friday 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
David Yezzi teaches courses on narrative poetry (from Homer to the present) and on the dramatic element in lyric poetry, as well as “Performing Fiction & Poetry,” which combines literary and theatrical practice to further develop an awareness of literature as a spoken art form.
More Things in Heaven: New and Selected Poems
- 2022 , Measure Press
- Role: author
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Black Sea
- 2018 , Carnegie Mellon Poetry
- Role: author
Birds of the Air
- 2013 , Carnegie Mellon
- Role: author
The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets
- 2009 , Swallow Press
- Role: editor
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Azores
- 2008 , Swallow Press
- Role: author
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The Hidden Model
- 2003 , Triquarterly Books
- Role: author