Shade 2004

by David Dodd Lee (Editor)

Shade 2004 is the first of a yearly anthology of new poetry and fiction representing some of America’s most revered voices alongside emerging writers from around the country. Here east coast meets west coast and the Great Lakes meet the Gulf in a collection favoring no single aesthetic, while gathering lively, accessible poetry and fiction. Contributors include Michael Burkard, Tina Chang, Jim Daniels, Nancy Eimers, Judith Hall, Mark Halliday, Forrest Hamer, Terrance Hayes, Brian Henry, Bob Hicok, Ted Kooser, Pablo Medina, William Olsen, Kevin Prufer, David Rivard, Mary Ruefle, Hugh Seidman and Maura Stanton among others. For college level and up.

Genres: Poetry

276 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

David Dodd Lee has published nine full-length books of poems and a chapbook. His newest book is a second book of Ashbery erasure poems, And Others, Vaguer Presences (BlazeVox, 2016). His first was Sky Booths in the Breath Somewhere, the Ashbery Erasure Poems (BlaxeVox 2010).He is also the author of Animalties (Four Way, 2014), The Coldest Winter on Earth (Marick Press, 2012), The Nervous Filaments (Four Way Books 2010), and Orphan, Indiana (University of Akron Press 2010), as well Abrupt Rural (New Issues), which was published in 2004. Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Nation, West Branch,Jacket, Gulf Coast, Blackbird, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Pool, Denver Quarterly, Slope, Pleiades, Laurel Review, Nerve, and Massachusett's Review. He was the editor of the annual poetry and fiction anthology, SHADE, published by Four Way Books. Lee is also the publisher of Half Moon Bay poetry chapbooks, which include titles by Franz Wright and Hugh Seidman. In the past he has served as poetry editor at Third Coast and Passages North. He has worked as a park ranger, a fisheries technician, and a journalist. He received the MFA degree in 1993, after taking a BFA in painting and Art History in the eighties. He teaches creative writing and visual art at Indiana University South Bend.