Between Angels

Stephen Dunn (1939–2021) won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2001 for Different Hours. Born in Forest Hills, Queens, he earned a BA in history and English at Hofstra University, where he played basketball on a scholarship, and an MA in creative writing at Syracuse. Loosestrife was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1996. From 1974 he taught at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, later Stockton University, and he held a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1984 alongside fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Rockefeller Foundation. The Not Yet Fallen World, his selected poems, appeared from Norton after his death.