Dante Micheaux

Dante Micheaux
OccupationPoet
Alma materNew York University
Notable worksCircus (2018)
Notable awardsFour Quartets Prize;
Oscar Wilde Award;
Ambit Magazine Poetry Prize

Dante Micheaux is an American poet whose work Circus was the winner of the 2019 Four Quartets Prize, presented by the Poetry Society of America in partnership with the T. S. Eliot Foundation, having been selected by judges Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Carmen Giménez Smith and Rosanna Warren.[1]

Among other honors Micheaux has received are a poetry prize from the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, the Oscar Wilde Award, the 2020 Ambit Magazine Poetry Prize, and fellowships from Cave Canem Foundation and The New York Times Foundation.[2][3] Journals and anthologies in which his poems and translations have appeared include The American Poetry Review, Callaloo, Poetry, PN Review, and Tongue.[2]

Micheaux is Director of Programs at Cave Canem.[4][5][6]

  1. ^ "Dante Micheaux wins the Four Quartets Prize". Poetry Society of America. April 30, 2019. Retrieved September 8, 2024.
  2. ^ a b "Dante Micheaux". Indolent Books.
  3. ^ "Virtual AWP in Conversation: Celebrating Black Poetry with Cave Canem, Sponsored by The Givens Foundation for African American Literature". Poets.org.
  4. ^ "Welcome Dante Micheaux & Matthew Raybeam to the Cave Canem Team!". Cave Canem. Retrieved September 8, 2024.
  5. ^ "Team | Dante Micheaux". Cave Canem. Retrieved September 10, 2024.
  6. ^ China, Stacy Y. (November 27, 2023). "How Cave Canem Has Nurtured Generations of Black Poets". The New York Times.