Daniel Gutstein
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Dan Gutstein is an American
writer
who has published two collections of writing, non/fiction (prose, Edge Books, 2010) and Bloodcoal & Honey (poetry, Washington Writers' Publishing House, 2011), as well as poetry
, fiction shorts
, fiction
, drama
, and memoir
widely in literary magazine
s, and who has taught poetry and fiction writing, composition
, and literature
at George Washington University
, University of Michigan
, the Writer's Center
in Bethesda, Maryland, and the Smithsonian Institution
's Campus on the Mall program. Currently, he works at Maryland Institute College of Art
in Baltimore
, where he runs the Writing Studio and Learning Resource Center, which serves students who have disabilities. He has received grants and awards from the Maryland State Arts Council, Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, Maryland
, Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, and the University of Michigan, where he earned an MFA in creative writing (poetry). In 1990, he graduated from the George Washington University with a B.A. in economics, and worked for the now-defunct accounting and consulting firm, Arthur Andersen
& Co. He has held a number of other positions outside academia, serving an association of science museums as editor-in-chief, a major Washington, D.C.
theatre as an educator, and a national news organization as Capitol Hill
Reporter. He has also done farm work and taught taekwondo
. The web site Rate My Professors recently named him the 2010-2011 "hottest" professor in America, a development that was reported by the Huffington Post, among other media outlets.
Gutstein has studied with fiction writer, memoirist, and editor Faye Moskowitz, who he credits as being a mentor and a major early influence. He later studied with writers Thomas Lux
, Richard Tillinghast
, Alan Shapiro, and John Russell Brown, among others, and cites such writers from the Washington, D.C. poetry scene—Mark Wallace and Rod Smith
-- as important later influences. Gutstein has cited the poet Paul Celan
as being a major source of inspiration, and credits a number of American poets and fiction writers such as Charles Reznikoff
, George Oppen
, Lyn Hejinian
, Shirley Jackson
, Flannery O'Connor
, and James Baldwin
, as favorites.
Bloodcoal & Honey (Washington Writers' Publishing House, DC: 2011) http://www.amazon.com/Bloodcoal-Honey-Dan-Gutstein/dp/093184696X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1312397094&sr=1-1
United States
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writer
Writer
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who has published two collections of writing, non/fiction (prose, Edge Books, 2010) and Bloodcoal & Honey (poetry, Washington Writers' Publishing House, 2011), as well as poetry
Poetry
Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...
, fiction shorts
Short story
A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based on length differ somewhat, even among professional writers, in part because...
, fiction
Fiction
Fiction is the form of any narrative or informative work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not factual, but rather, imaginary—that is, invented by the author. Although fiction describes a major branch of literary work, it may also refer to theatrical,...
, drama
Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...
, and memoir
Memoir
A memoir , is a literary genre, forming a subclass of autobiography – although the terms 'memoir' and 'autobiography' are almost interchangeable. Memoir is autobiographical writing, but not all autobiographical writing follows the criteria for memoir set out below...
widely in literary magazine
Literary magazine
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s, and who has taught poetry and fiction writing, composition
Composition (language)
The term composition , in written language, refers to the collective body of important features established by the author in their creation of literature...
, and literature
Literature
Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources...
at George Washington University
George Washington University
The George Washington University is a private, coeducational comprehensive university located in Washington, D.C. in the United States...
, University of Michigan
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
, the Writer's Center
Writer's Center
The Writer's Center, founded in 1976, is anindependent literary center that is housed in a 12,200-square-foot facility in the arts and entertainment district of Bethesda, Maryland. The organization consists of approximately 2,500 writers, editors, small press publishers and other artists who...
in Bethesda, Maryland, and the Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Institution
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's Campus on the Mall program. Currently, he works at Maryland Institute College of Art
Maryland Institute College of Art
Maryland Institute College of Art is an art and design college in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. It was founded in 1826 as the Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts, making it one of the first and oldest art colleges in the United States. In 2008, MICA was ranked #2 in the nation...
in Baltimore
Baltimore
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, where he runs the Writing Studio and Learning Resource Center, which serves students who have disabilities. He has received grants and awards from the Maryland State Arts Council, Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, Maryland
Montgomery County, Maryland
Montgomery County is a county in the U.S. state of Maryland, situated just to the north of Washington, D.C., and southwest of the city of Baltimore. It is one of the most affluent counties in the United States, and has the highest percentage of residents over 25 years of age who hold post-graduate...
, Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, and the University of Michigan, where he earned an MFA in creative writing (poetry). In 1990, he graduated from the George Washington University with a B.A. in economics, and worked for the now-defunct accounting and consulting firm, Arthur Andersen
Arthur Andersen
Arthur Andersen LLP, based in Chicago, was once one of the "Big Five" accounting firms among PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Ernst & Young and KPMG, providing auditing, tax, and consulting services to large corporations...
& Co. He has held a number of other positions outside academia, serving an association of science museums as editor-in-chief, a major Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
theatre as an educator, and a national news organization as Capitol Hill
Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C.
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Reporter. He has also done farm work and taught taekwondo
Taekwondo
Taekwondo is a Korean martial art and the national sport of South Korea. In Korean, tae means "to strike or break with foot"; kwon means "to strike or break with fist"; and do means "way", "method", or "path"...
. The web site Rate My Professors recently named him the 2010-2011 "hottest" professor in America, a development that was reported by the Huffington Post, among other media outlets.
Gutstein has studied with fiction writer, memoirist, and editor Faye Moskowitz, who he credits as being a mentor and a major early influence. He later studied with writers Thomas Lux
Thomas Lux
-Biography:Thomas Lux was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, son of a milkman and a Sears & Roebuck switchboard operator, neither of whom graduated from high school. Lux was raised in Massachusetts on a dairy farm. He was, according to those who knew him in high school, very good at baseball,...
, Richard Tillinghast
Richard Tillinghast
-Life:Richard Tillinghast is a native of Memphis, Tennessee, a graduate of Sewanee and Harvard . He has taught at Harvard as a Briggs-Copeland Lecturer, at the University of California at Berkeley, in the college program at San Quentin Prison, at Sewanee, and the University of Michigan.Tillinghast...
, Alan Shapiro, and John Russell Brown, among others, and cites such writers from the Washington, D.C. poetry scene—Mark Wallace and Rod Smith
Rod Smith (poet)
Rod Smith, who was born in Gallipolis, Ohio in 1962, is an American poet, editor and publisher. He grew up in Northern Virginia and moved to Washington, DC in 1987. Smith has authored several collections of poetry, including In Memory of My Theories, Protective Immediacy, and Music or Honesty. He...
-- as important later influences. Gutstein has cited the poet Paul Celan
Paul Celan
Paul Celan was a poet and translator...
as being a major source of inspiration, and credits a number of American poets and fiction writers such as Charles Reznikoff
Charles Reznikoff
Charles Reznikoff was the poet for whom the term Objectivist was first coined. When asked by Harriet Munroe to provide an introduction to what became known as the Objectivist issue of Poetry, Louis Zukofsky provided his essay Sincerity and Objectification: With Special Reference to the Work of...
, George Oppen
George Oppen
George Oppen was an American poet, best known as one of the members of the Objectivist group of poets. He abandoned poetry in the 1930s for political activism, and later moved to Mexico to avoid the attentions of the House Un-American Activities Committee...
, Lyn Hejinian
Lyn Hejinian
Lyn Hejinian is an American poet, essayist, translator and publisher. She is often associated with the Language poets and is well known for her landmark work My Life , as well as her book of essays, The Language of Inquiry .-Life:Hejinian was born in the San...
, Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson was an American author. A popular writer in her time, her work has received increasing attention from literary critics in recent years...
, Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor
Mary Flannery O'Connor was an American novelist, short-story writer and essayist. An important voice in American literature, O'Connor wrote two novels and 32 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries...
, and James Baldwin
James Baldwin (writer)
James Arthur Baldwin was an American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic.Baldwin's essays, for instance "Notes of a Native Son" , explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th century America,...
, as favorites.
Book Publication
non/fiction (Edge Books: Washington, DC: 2010) http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9781890311254/nonfiction.aspxBloodcoal & Honey (Washington Writers' Publishing House, DC: 2011) http://www.amazon.com/Bloodcoal-Honey-Dan-Gutstein/dp/093184696X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1312397094&sr=1-1
Selected works in anthologies
- "What Can Disappear," in The Penguin Book of the Sonnet ed. Phyllis Levin (New York: Penguin, 2001).
- "Monsieur Pierre est mort," in Best American Poetry 2006 ed. Billy Collins (New York: Scribner, 2007).
Selected works available online
- http://thediagram.com/4_4/gutstein.html
- http://www.versedaily.org/2007/merryland.shtml
- http://webdoc.nyumc.org/nyumc/files/blr/u7/The_Disease_then_But_a_Constellation.pdf
- http://neworleansreview.org/archives/2007-2009/volume-33-number-1/gutstein/
- http://www.redividerjournal.org/neales-bar/
- http://www.pankmagazine.com/?p=577
- http://www.pankmagazine.com/?p=1543
- http://www.liliesandcannonballs.com/images/p68_Gutstein_Merryland_FINAL.pdf
- http://washingtonart.com/beltway/gutstein.html
- http://thediagram.com/3_1/gutstein.html
- http://webdelsol.com/Perihelion//gutstein.htm
- http://www.thetangentpress.org/craft&edge.html
- http://www.dcpoetry.com/?module=keywords&keyword=Gutstein,%20Daniel
- http://thediagram.com/6_5/gutstein.html
- http://sporkpress.com/4_1/Pieces/Gutstein.htm
- http://www.webdelsol.com/Del_Sol_Review/dsr7/gutstein.htm
- http://www.elevenelevenjournal.com/Poetry_Dan_Gutstein.html
External links
- Ploughshares bio - see PloughsharesPloughsharesPloughshares is an American literary magazine founded in 1971 by DeWitt Henry and Peter O'Malley in The Plough and Stars, an Irish pub in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since 1989, Ploughshares has been based at Emerson College in the heart of Boston...
- The Writer's Center's bio