Michael Dickman

Michael Dickman is an American poet born August 20, 1975 in Portland, Oregon. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, Field, Tin House, and Narrative Magazine.[1]

Dickman attended and graduated from La Salle Catholic College Preparatory, after which he attended five colleges (Portland State, the University of San Francisco, Portland Community College, Marylhurst University and the University of Oregon). He received a fellowship from The James A. Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas. In 2009, he received an Alfred Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University.[2]

His poem "Returning to Church" was awarded the 2008 Narrative Prize by Narrative Magazine.[3] Dickman's first book, The End of the West, was published in 2009 by Copper Canyon Press. His second book, Flies[4] (Copper Canyon Press, 2011), won the 2010 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets.[5] He is also the coauthor, with his twin brother Matthew Dickman, of the 2012 poetry collection 50 American Plays,[6] published by Copper Canyon Press.

He along with his brother Matthew starred as the pre-cog twins, Arthur and Dashiell respectively, in the 2002 Steven Spielberg film Minority Report.

Michael and Matthew Dickman were the subject of an April 6, 2009, New Yorker profile.[7]

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List of poems

Title Year First published Reprinted/collected
From the canal 2013 Dickman, Michael (May 6, 2013). "From the canal". The New Yorker. 89 (12): 36. 

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