Timothy Steele

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Timothy Steele (born 1948) is a United States poet and academic.

Timothy Steele was born in Burlington, Vermont in 1948 and is a professor of English at California State University, Los Angeles.^[1] Some of Steele's early verse appeared in X. J. Kennedy's Counter/Measures in the early seventies. He went on to become a prominent figure in the New Formalism movement, and was an original faculty member of the West Chester University Poetry Conference on Form and Narrative in Poetry. He received the Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award in 2004.

Steele is the author of five books of poetry with his second, Sapphics Against Anger and Other Poems (1986), being the breakthrough that established a larger readership. His poetry is known as more strictly "formal" than the work of most fellow New Formalists in that he rarely uses inexact rhymes or metrical substitutions, and is sparing in his use of enjambment. He has also made an impact through his two books on prosody; a more technical book, Missing Measures, and the more popular book All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing.

[edit] Bibliography

Poetry

• Uncertainties and Rest (LSU Press, 1979)
• Sapphics Against Anger and Other Poems (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986)
• The Color Wheel (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994)
• Sapphics and Uncertainties (University of Arkansas Press, 1995)
• Toward the Winter Solstice (Ohio University/Swallow Press, 2006)

Non fiction

• Missing Measures: Modern Poetry and the Revolt against Meter (University of Arkansas Press, 1990), and a more popular book, All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing: An Explanation of Meter and Versification (Ohio University/Swallow Press, 1999)
• [1]Three Poets in Conversation: Dick Davis, Rachel Hadas, Timothy Steele (London: Between the Lines, 2006)

Edited

• The Poems of J. V. Cunningham (Ohio University/Swallow Press 2001)

[edit] External links

• Home page
• Timothy Steele at the Academy of American Poets
• Interview by Cynthia L. Haven in Cortland Review, June 2000
• Interview by Kevin Durkin
• [2] [ital] Three

[edit] References

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NAME	Steele, Timothy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Contemporary United States, New Formalist poet and academic
DATE OF BIRTH	1948
PLACE OF BIRTH	Burlington, Vermont, United States
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH