D.A. Powell

D. A. Powell's most recent collections include Low Hanging Fruit (Foundlings Press, 2022) and Atlas T (Rescue Press, 2020). Powell's awards include the National Book Critics Circle Award, Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, Kingsley Tufts Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, and the California Book Award. He has taught at Stanford, University of Iowa, and Harvard University. His poetry inhabits the intersections of land, body and popular culture.

• Iowa Writers' Workshop, MFA
• Sonoma State University, MA

• Briggs-Copeland Lecture in Poetry, Harvard University
• McGee Professor of Writing, Davidson College
• Visiting Faculty, University of Iowa
• Michener Residency Writer, James Michener Center, UT-Austin

• John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, 2019

• Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America

• Kingsley Tufts Prize

• Pushcart Prizes

• California Book Award

• Powell, D.A. (2012) Useless Landscape, or a Guide for Boys. Graywolf Press.

• Powell, D.A. (2009) Chronic. Graywolf Press.

• Powell, D.A. (2004) Cocktails. Graywolf Press.