DePaul Visiting Writers Series Upcoming Events

Dan Beachy-Quick

Thursday, February 19 at 6:30
Richardson Library

Dan Beachy-Quick is one of the most acclaimed young poets in America today. He is the author of three collections of poems: Mulberry (Tupelo Press, 2006), Spell (Ahsata Press, 2004), and North True South Bright (Alice James Books, 2003). Mulberry was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award for poetry. His poems, criticism, and essays have been widely published in magazines and reviews, and frequently anthologized. A graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, Dan Beachy-Quick is an Associate Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at Colorado State University. He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, with his wife and daughter.

A recent review of A Whaler's Dictionary:

Taking its inspiration—and, for that matter, its form—from Ishmael’s abandoned “Cetological Dictionary” in Moby-Dick, this extraordinary, highly original work brings meditations on myth, representation, language, nature, consciousness, and notions of spiritual quest into constantly new relations. From “Accuracy” to “Wound,” from “Adam” to “Void,” and from “Babel” to “Silence,” the cross-referential, highly associative entries make up an utterly singular work of art. For fans of Beachy-Quick’s acclaimed collections of poems, for the legions of Melville fanatics among us, and indeed for anyone who regards reading as an unconditional, encompassing obsession, A Whaler’s Dictionary is absolutely essential.