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Alex Dimitrov
Dimitrov reads at the 92nd Street Y

Alex Dimitrov (born November 30, 1984) is an American poet living in New York City.

Early life

Dimitrov is a first-generation immigrant, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, and raised in Detroit, Michigan. His parents fled a communist Bulgaria shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall. He attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he studied with the poet Anne Carson, and received a BA in English and Film in 2007. In 2009 he received an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College, where he studied with the poet Marie Howe.

Career

Dimitrov is the recipient of the Stanley Kunitz Prize from the American Poetry Review and a Pushcart Prize. He worked at the Academy of American Poets for eight years, where he was the Senior Content Editor and edited the popular online series Poem-a-Day and American Poets magazine.

He has taught writing at Princeton University, Columbia University, New York University, Barnard College, Sarah Lawrence College, Rutgers University in New Brunswick, Marymount Manhattan College, and Bennington College.

In June 2012 he published American Boys, an online chapbook from Floating Wolf Quarterly. His first book of poems, Begging for It, was published by Four Way Books in March 2013. His second book of poems, Together and by Ourselves, was published by Copper Canyon Press in April 2017.

Dimitrov published his third book, Love and Other Poems, in February 2021. The title poem, "Love," was published in the American Poetry Review in their January/February 2020 issue, which featured Dimitrov on the cover.

His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review, Poetry, The Yale Review, The Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, Slate, Tin House, Boston Review, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and other publications.

In February 2014, Dimitrov launched Night Call, a multimedia poetry project through which he read poems to strangers in bed and online. Some of the components of the project included a video and a poem both titled Night Call.

On November 26, 2016, with the poet Dorothea Lasky, Dimitrov founded Astro Poets. Flatiron Books published their book, Astro Poets: Your Guides to the Zodiac in October 2019.

Dimitrov published his fifth book, Love and Other Poems, in 2021 which the New York Times book review talked of a source of "impromptu shot(s) of delight".

Wilde Boys

On May 27, 2009, days after graduating from Sarah Lawrence College, Dimitrov founded Wilde Boys, a queer poetry salon that brought together emerging and established writers in New York City.

Dimitrov has also held salons focusing on the work of queer poets Joe Brainard, Tim Dlugos, Leland Hickman and Reginald Shepherd. A salon was also held in honor of Elizabeth Bishop, with special guests Richard Howard and Gabrielle Calvocoressi.

Wilde Boys ended on November 1, 2013.

Bibliography

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Poetry

Collections

• American Boys, 2012 (Floating Wolf Quarterly)
• Begging for It, 2013 (Four Way Books)
• Together and by Ourselves, 2017 (Copper Canyon Press)
• Love and Other Poems, 2021 (Copper Canyon Press)

List of poems

Nonfiction

• Astro Poets: Your Guides to the Zodiac, with Dorothea Lasky, 2019 (Flatiron Books)

References

1. Huguenin, Patrick (2011-11-02). "The Wilde Boys Salon, for Poetry or Maybe a Hot Date". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2015-10-07. Retrieved 2017-02-26.
2. Teicher, Jordan (2011-06-23). "New York writers with MFA begin new chapter with readings and projects". New York Daily News.
3. "Raise Your Glass: Alex Dimitrov's "Cocaine" Wins Pushcart Prize". The Adroit Journal. Archived from the original on 2016-05-13. Retrieved 2016-05-12.
4. "Alex Dimitrov". Poetry Foundation. 21 September 2021. Archived from the original on 2018-01-29.
5. "Staff - Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More". Poets.org. Archived from the original on 2012-10-03. Retrieved 2012-08-21.
6. "Alex Dimitrov". Lewis Center for the Arts. Archived from the original on 2020-01-15. Retrieved 2020-01-15.
7. "Alex Dimitrov". Columbia - School of the Arts. Archived from the original on 2020-01-15. Retrieved 2020-01-15.
8. "American Boys -- Alex Dimitrov". floatingwolfquarterly.com. Archived from the original on 2020-01-15. Retrieved 2020-01-15.
9. Rathe, Adam (2012-05-22). "Hot List 2012: Alex Dimitrov". OUT Magazine. Archived from the original on 2012-06-25. Retrieved 2012-08-21.
10. "Together and by Ourselves by Alex Dimitrov". Archived from the original on 2020-11-29. Retrieved 2020-12-26.
11. "American Poetry Review - Alex Dimitrov - "Love"". American Poetry Review. Archived from the original on 2020-01-15. Retrieved 2020-01-15.
12. "Vol. 49 No. 1 - Jan/Feb 2020". The American Poetry Review. Archived from the original on 2020-01-15. Retrieved 2020-01-15.
13. Dimitrov, Alex (2018-04-23). ""June"". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Archived from the original on 2019-07-11. Retrieved 2020-01-15.
14. "Poems of Resistance: A Primer". The New York Times. 2017-04-21. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2020-03-18. Retrieved 2020-01-15.
15. Dimitrov, Alex (2018). "Impermanence". The Paris Review. Interviews. Vol. Winter 2018, no. 227. ISSN 0031-2037. Archived from the original on 2020-01-12. Retrieved 2020-01-15.
16. Dimitrov, Alex (January 2012). "Together and by Ourselves". Poetry. Archived from the original on 2014-02-25. Retrieved 2014-02-22.
17. Dimitrov, Alex (January 2012). "Bloodletting". The Yale Review. Archived from the original on 2013-09-26. Retrieved 2012-08-21.
18. Dimitrov, Alex (March 2011). "The Composer's Lover". The Kenyon Review. Archived from the original on 2013-09-27. Retrieved 2012-08-21.
19. Dimitrov, Alex (2012-02-21). "Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning". Slate. Archived from the original on 2012-08-21. Retrieved 2012-08-21.
20. Dimitrov, Alex (August 2011). "Passage". Boston Review. Archived from the original on 2012-11-08. Retrieved 2012-08-21.
21. Dimitrov, Alex (2014-02-14). "Night Call". Author's website. Archived from the original on 2014-03-03. Retrieved 2014-02-22.
22. Certa, Sarah (2014-02-13). "Being in Bed with Strangers: An Interview with Alex Dimitrov". Fanzine. Archived from the original on 2014-03-01. Retrieved 2014-02-22.
23. "Astro Poets (@poetastrologers) | Twitter". twitter.com. Archived from the original on 2020-02-22. Retrieved 2020-01-15.
24. Gordinier, Jeff (2021-02-25). "To Light Up a Dark Time, Effervescent Poems of New York City". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2022-03-10. Retrieved 2022-03-10.
25. McDaniel, Jeffrey (2012-08-08). "Into the Wilde". Poetry Foundation. Archived from the original on 2012-11-10. Retrieved 2012-08-21.
26. Schneiderman, Jason (2010-08-04). "Alex Dimitrov, Wilde Boy". Lambda Literary. Archived from the original on 2012-04-29. Retrieved 2012-08-21.
27. Edwards, B.C. (2011-06-16). "The Wilde Boys". BOMB. Archived from the original on 2012-09-15. Retrieved 2012-08-21.
28. Dimitrov, Alex (2013-11-01). "Wilde Boys". Author's Website. Archived from the original on 2014-03-03. Retrieved 2014-02-22.

External links

• Begging for It
• American Boys, an echapbook by Alex Dimitrov
• The L Mag Questionnaire for Writer Types: Alex Dimitrov, The L Magazine, 15. Sept, 2011

• 1984 births
• Living people
• 21st-century American male writers
• 21st-century American poets
• 21st-century American LGBTQ people
• American LGBTQ poets
• American gay writers
• American male poets
• Bulgarian gay writers
• Bulgarian LGBTQ poets
• Bulgarian emigrants to the United States
• Gay poets
• LGBTQ people from Michigan
• LGBTQ people from New York (state)
• The New Yorker people
• Sarah Lawrence College alumni
• University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts alumni
• Writers from Detroit
• Poets from New York City
• 21st-century Bulgarian LGBTQ people