Wayne Dodd
Wayne D. Dodd is an American poet and teacher of poetry from Oklahoma. Dodd was born on September 23, 1930, in Clarita, Oklahoma to Homer Dewey and Maggie Matilda Dodd. As both poet and teacher of poetry (he is a distinguished professor at Ohio University), he has worked, read his poems, and lectured at many colleges, universities, and art centers. He was educated at the University of Oklahoma, receiving his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. there. Publications. Dodd has published eleven books, including a novel entitled "A Time of Hunting" (1975), "Toward the End of the Century: Essays Into  Poetry" (1992), and "The Blue Salvages" for which he was nominated for a National Book Award in 1998. He was nominated for a Pulitzer in 1994 for his poetry book, "Of Desire and Disorder". His other poetry books include "We Will Wear White Roses", "Made in America", and "Sometimes Music Rises". Critical acclaim. Mr. Dodd's work has been honored by nominations for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and has been a finalist for the American Academy of Poets' Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Among the literary awards and recognitions he has received are  grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council, and fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation and the United States Park Service. He is the recipient of the Krout Memorial Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Ohioana Library Association, the Patterson Award in Poetry and the 2001 Governor's Award for the Arts/Individual Artist Award.