Philip Dacey's homepage

"Dacey plays, as Frost would have it, for mortal stakes. I love his unsolemn seriousness and his rangy wit." -Stephen Dunn

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Welcome to the homepage of poet Philip Dacey.

He is the author of ten full-length books of poems, including The Mystery of Max Schmitt: Poems on the Life and Work of Thomas Eakins (Turning Point Books, 2004), The New York Postcard Sonnets: A Midwesterner Moves to Manhattan (Rain Mountain Press, 2007), and most recently from Red Dragonfly Press (Northfield, Minnesota) in 2009: Vertebrae Rosaries.

Born (1939) and raised in St. Louis, he has degrees from St. Louis U. (B.S), Stanford (M.A.) and Iowa (M.F.A.).

The father of three grown children, Emmett, Austin, and Fay, he served in the Peace Corps (Nigeria, 1963-1965) and taught at Miles College, Birmingham, Alabama, in 1966.

For thirty-five years a resident of Minnesota and English professor at Southwest Minnesota State University, Marshall, he moved in December, 2004, to Manhattan's Upper West Side.

His current address is 102 W. 76th St. (#2R); New York, N. Y. 10023. Email him at philipdacey@gmail.com.

His most recent chapbook: Three Shades of Green: Poems of Fatherhood (Snark Publishing, 2006), contains work written for his three children between 1976 and 2005.

Other news:

A review of The New York Postcard Sonnets appears in Nov. '07 issue of Peace Corps Writers. Read one of the sonnets at Flurry.
Another review of the postcard sonnets (Nov., '08).

"The Neighbors" appears at Poets Against the War.

Listen to Garrison Keillor read on his Nov. 3rd Writers Almanac a New York postcard sonnet and on his July 17th show "The Rules."

Poems appear in various recent anthologies: Eating the Pure Light: Homage to Thomas McGrath (The Backwaters Press, 2009); Don't Leave Hungry: Fifty Years of Southern Poetry Review (U. of Arkansas Press, 2009) The Pushcart Book of Poetry: The Best Poems from Thirty Years of The Pushcart Prize (2007), The Book of Irish American Poetry From the Eighteenth Century to the Present (University of Notre Dame, 2007), and Where One Voice Ends Another Begins: 150 Years of Minnesota Poetry (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2007).

Won First Prize in the 2007 "How the West Side YMCA Has Positively Impacted My Life" Essay Contest (New York City).

New online: "Plasticize Me"

Reviews of the New York Postcard Sonnets and Vertebrae Rosaries. Plus one more of the latter (click on "D").