Poet Dannye Romine Powell Is “In the Sunroom with Raymond Carver”
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In this episode 136, we visit with poet Dannye Romine Powell, author of “In the Sunroom with Raymond Carver,” and other books and publications.
Susan Ludvigson, author of “Wave as If You Can See Me” says “Dannye Powell’s poems are insightful and smart, and her gift for the perfect metaphor continues to feel effortless and natural. She finds humor in some of the bumps life amply provides, so that even poems dealing with difficult moments and tough issues leave the reader feeling uplifted.”
Patricia Hooper, author of “Wild Persistence” calls the book “a treasure” and Joseph Bathanti, North Carolina Poet Laureate and author of “The 13th Sunday after Pentecost” says that “In the Sunroom with Raymond Carver,” underscores Dannye Romine Powell’s “abiding reputation as a poet of breathtaking candor and precision, the consummate craftswoman, who painstakingly parses syllables into words as if sifting for gold.”
Dannye starts the show with a reading of the title piece in the book, “In the Sunroom with Raymond Carver.”
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About the Author:
Dannye Romine Powell is the author of five collections of poetry, two of which have won the Brockman-Campbell Award for the best book of poetry published by a North Carolinian in the previous year. She’s won fellowships in poetry from the NEA, the North Carolina Arts Council and the writer’s colony Yaddo. Her poems have appeared in many magazines and journals, among them The Paris Review, Ploughshares, 32 Poems, Harvard Review Online, The Southern Review, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Cave Wall and Tar River.
A longtime book editor for the Charlotte Observer, Dannye is also the author of Parting the Curtains: Interviews with Southern Writers. She lives in a yellow house across from a park with her husband Lew Powell, also a long-time journalist.
Books by Dannye Romine Powell:
In the Sunroom with Raymond Carver, 2020
Nobody Calls Me Darling Anymore, Press 53, 2015
A Necklace of Bees, University of Arkansas Press, 2008
The Ecstasy of Regret, University of Arkansas Press, 2003
Parting the Curtains: Interviews with Southern Writers, John Blair, 1994. Doubleday 1995
At Every Wedding Someone Stays Home, University Of Arkansas Press, 1994
Publications in Magazines: 32 Poems, Arts & Letters, Baltimore Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Birmingham Arts Journal, Blackbird, Cave Wall, Connotation Press, Crab Orchard Review, Crazyhorse, Crucible, Field, Georgetown Review, Georgia Review, Gettysburg Review, Harvard Review Online, Iodine, Jelly Bucket, Kentucky Review, Memoir, The New Republic, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Poetry Daily, Prairie Schooner, River Styx, San Pedro River Poetry Review, Shenandoah, Southern Poetry Review, Southern Review, Sow’s Ear, storySouth, Tahoma Review, Tampa Review, Tar River Poetry, The Writer’s Almanac, Tinderbox, Wigleaf.
Prizes and Awards:
University of Arkansas First Book Award – 1995
Oscar Arnold Young – first prize 2003
Finalist for Southeastern Book Sellers Award 2003
Finalist for Foreword Magazine Award
Sam Ragan Fine Arts Award 2002
Ethel N. Fortner Award for Writer and Community Award 2017
Irene Honeycutt Lifetime Achievement Award 2012
Ragan-Rubin Award from the NC English Teachers Association To an outstanding NC Writer 2012
Brockman-Campbell Award for Best Book of Poetry by a North Carolinian in the Preceding Year 2002
Brockman-Campbell Award for Best book of Poetry by a North Carolinian in the Preceding Year 2008
First Prize Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition 2011
Finalist for a poem in the 2014 Bellevue Literary Review Literary Prizes
Finalist for a poem in the 2014 Atlanta Review International Contest
First place for a poem in the Hackney Literary Awards 2019
First place in the 2020 Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition
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