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4 unusual facts about David Yezzi


David Yezzi

Asked what living poets he admires, Yezzi mentioned Geoffrey Hill, Richard Wilbur, A. E. Stallings, David Barber, and Adam Kirsch.

In graduate school, he received the David Craig Austin Memorial Award from Columbia University (judged by Jorie Graham).

Director of the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y in New York City from 2001 to 2005, Yezzi has worked as executive editor of The New Criterion, associate editor of Parnassus: Poetry in Review, and on the staff of The New York Observer.

His poems have been published in literary journals including The Atlantic, Poetry, The Yale Review, The Paris Review, The New Republic, Poetry Daily and The New Criterion.


Garrick Davis

Regular contributors to the review have included a number of distinguished American poet-critics including Ernest Hilbert, David Yezzi, Adam Kirsch, Dillon Tracy, Bill Coyle, and Joan Houlihan.


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