College of Arts and Sciences — MFA in Writing

D.A. Powell

Associate Professor

D. A. Powell's books include Cocktails (Graywolf, 2004) and Chronic (Graywolf, 2009), both finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, and Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys (Graywolf, 2012). Powell's awards include the Kingsley Tufts Prize, a Pushcart Prize and the California Book Award. He has taught at Columbia University, University of Iowa, and Harvard University.

Click here for D.A. Powell's profile on the Poetry Foundation website. Follow him here on Twitter.

Readings
Click here to listen to D.A. Powell read at the Phi Beta Kappa literary exercises.

Education

M.A., Sonoma State University; MFA, Iowa Writers' Workshop