About
About
DENNIS RUSH (B.A. University of Nebraska at Omaha; M.F.A. Goddard College) writes poetry and is also a visual artist. He has been working on a musical project, creating songs from poetry from John Donne to Elizabeth Bishop which reveals the full musicality of distant poems. He grew up on a remote tobacco farm in Kentucky. He now lives in Staatsburg, New York and teaches at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York.
Email: thewayitsounds@gmail.com
Web Site: www.dennis-rush.com
instagram: @dennisrrush
Bandcamp: dennisrush.bandcamp.com
YouTube: @rushd23
Degrees
B. A. English, University of Nebraska at Omaha, 1995
M.F.A., Creative Writing / Poetry
Courses Taught
Graduate Course - Information Systems Policy; School of Computer Science and Mathematics, Marist College; 2022-present
Graduate Course - Systems Analysis and Design; School of Computer Science and Mathematics, Marist College; 2022-present
Online/Public - Poems for Politicians; Goddard College, 2020
Books:
What Are the Rich Doing Tonight? - Dos Madres Press, 2022
MAYFIELD - Dos Madres Press, 2022
Published Poetry:
"Summer Storm" - Kentucky Writers Association Anthology, August 1990
"Notes Taken at Young's Cemetery" - The Eloquent Umbrella, April 1996
“Maybe I’ll go Home Early” was published in Employees Only Anthology in 2009 and 2nd edition in 2012
"I Had the Brain" - Chronogram, June 2014
"Incense" - Chronogram, March 2015
"Picking Blackberries" - Up The River, Albany Poets Society, April 2015
"Kerouac's Grave" - Chronogram, August 2015
"Bread" - Chronogram, May 2017
"A Goat Died" - Chronogram, September 2017
"The Cucumber Letter" - The Pitkin Review, Spring 2019
"Nurture" - The Pitkin Review, Spring 2019
"Ham and Cheese" - The Pitkin Review, Fall 2019
"Collecting Rocks" - The Pitkin Review, Fall 2019
"Checking for Fender Damage" - The Pitkin Review, Spring 2020
"Nocturne"- The Pitkin Review, Spring 2020
"Editing"- The Pitkin Review, Fall 2020
"Silence"- The Pitkin Review, Fall 2020
Art Exhibits/Publications:
Mixed Media - April 2007, first prize in a juried exhibit held by the Bellingham Art Council, Bellingham, Massachusetts
Photography (exclusive artist show) - October - November 2009, Norfolk Public Library, Norfolk, Massachusetts
Photography - March - May 2014, Artists' Collective of Hyde Park, New York
Art (exclusive artist show) - Red Hook Community Center, March-August 2018
Art - Hudson Valley Art Studio Tours September, 2018-2022
Art (exclusive artist show) - November 2018 - June 2019, Twisted Soul, Poughkeepsie, New York
Art (exclusive artist show) - July 2018 - Rhinebeck Public Library, Rhinebeck, New York
Various Photography published in the Pitkin Review (18 Photos)- 2019-2020