Dante Di Stefano
Dante Di Stefano's poetry and essays have recently appeared in The Writer's Chronicle, Obsidian, Briliant Corners and The Southern California Review. He was the winner of the Thayer Fellowship in the Arts, the Allen Ginsburg Award, the Ruth Stone Poetry Prize, the Bea Gonzalez Prize in Poetry and an Academy of American Poets Prize. A Defense of Train Wrecks: Lyric Narrative Poetry and the Legacy of Confessionalism
After the train wreck of broken-prose confessionalism, there seems to be a general heightened emphasis upon technique, an understanding that, for the best poets, technique is coextensive with feeling, and that many of the elements associated with traditional technique must … Continue reading