Donald Revell is the author of sixteen collections of poetry, most recently of Canandaigua (2024) and White Campion (2021), both from Alice James Books. Revell has also published six volumes of translations from the French, including Apollinaire’s Alcools, Rimbaud’s A Season in Hell, Laforgue’s Last Verses, and Verlaine’s Songs without Words. His critical writings have been collected as: Sudden Eden: Essays; Essay: A Critical Memoir; The Art of Attention; and Invisible Green: Selected Prose. Winner of the PEN USA Translation Award and two-time winner of the PEN USA Award for Poetry, he has also won the Academy of American Poets’ Lenore Marshall Prize and is a former Fellow of the Ingram Merrill and Guggenheim Foundations. Additionally, he has twice been awarded Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. Poetry editor for both Colorado Review and The Mountain West Poetry Series, Revell also serves on the editorial board of The Test Site Poetry Series (University of Nevada Press). Having previously taught at the Universities of Alabama, Denver, Iowa, Missouri, Tennessee, and Utah, he is now Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Revell divides his time between Enterprise, Nevada and Geneva, New York.
