Donald Revell
Born in The Bronx, New York, in 1954, Donald Revell was educated at Harpur College and the University of Buffalo. He is the author of twelve collections of poetry, most recently of Tantivy (2012) and The Bitter Withy (2009), both from Alice James Books. Revell has published six volumes of translations from the French, including Apollinaire’s Alcools ( Wesleyan 1995), Rimbaud’s A Season in Hel (Omnidawn 2007), Laforgue’s Last
Verses (Omnidawn 2011), and Verlaine’s Songs without Words (Omnidawn 2013). His critical writings have been collected as The Art of Attention (Graywolf 2007) and Invisible Green: Selected Prose (Omnidawn 2005). Winner of the PEN USA Translation Award and two-time winner of the PEN USA Award for Poetry, he has also won the Academy of American Poets’ Lenore Marshall Prize and is a former Fellow of the Ingram Merrill and Guggenheim foundations. Additionally, he has twice been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. Former editor-in-chief of Denver Quarterly, he now serves as poetry editor of Colorado Review. Revell is director of graduate studies and professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He lives with his wife, poet Claudia Keelan, and their children, Benjamin and Lucie, in the Spring Mountains of Nevada.
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