Aldon Lynn Nielsen

Aldon Lynn Nielsen (born 1950 Grand Island, Nebraska) is an American poet, and literary critic.

Life

He was raised in the District of Columbia, where he graduated from the Federal City College and from the George Washington University, with a Ph.D. He taught at Howard University, San Jose State University, the University of California, Los Angeles and Loyola Marymount University. He is the George and Barbara Kelly Professor of American Literature in the Pennsylvania State University.[1]

He lives in Pennsylvania and California, where his wife, Anna Everett, teaches at U.C. Santa Barbara. Nielsen loves to wear hats and owns several tablets.

Awards

  • Larry Neal Award for poetry
  • two Gertrude Stein Awards for innovation.
  • SAMLA Studies Prize, a Myers Citation and the Kayden Award for best book in the humanities, for Reading Race
  • Josephine Miles Award, for Integral Music: Languages of African American Innovation
  • American Book Award for Don't deny my name: words and music and the black intellectual tradition
  • Darwin Turner Award

Works

Poetry

  • Heat Strings
  • Evacuation Routes, Score, 1994
  • Stepping Razor. Edge Books. 1997. ISBN 978-0-9619097-9-6.
  • VEXT. Sink Press. 1999. ISBN 978-0-9623806-5-5.
  • Mixage. Zasterle. 2005. ISBN 978-84-87467-43-1.
  • Mantic Semantic. Hank's Loose Gravel Press. 2011.
  • A Brand New Beggar. Steerage Press. 2013. ISBN 978-0983632665.
  • Tray. Make Now Books. 2017. ISBN 9781942272106.
  • You Didn't Hear This from Me. Theenk Books. 2018. ISBN 97809883891-7-5.

Criticism

As Editor

  • Aldon Lynn Nielsen; Laura Vrana, eds. (2019). The Collected Poems of Lorenzo Thomas. Wesleyan.
  • A Spell in the Pokey: The Selected Poems of Hugh Walthall. Selva Oscura. 2019.

Anthologies

  • John Ashbery; David Lehman, eds. (1988). Best American Poems anthology. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-02-044181-6.
  • Aldon Lynn Nielsen; Lauri Ramey, eds. (2006). Every Goodbye Ain't Gone. University of Alabama Press. ISBN 978-0-8173-5279-0.

References

  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-01-01. Retrieved 2009-10-21.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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