13 Facts About Ed Dorn

Edward Merton Ed Dorn was an American poet and teacher often associated with the Black Mountain poets.

Ed Dorn grew up in rural poverty during the Great Depression.

Ed Dorn attended a one-room schoolhouse for his first eight grades.

Ed Dorn later studied at the University of Illinois and at Black Mountain College.

In 1951, Ed Dorn left Black Mountain and traveled to the Pacific Northwest, where he did manual labor and met his first wife, Helene; they returned to the school in late 1954.

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Ed Dorn spent most of the next five years in England, where he published several collections of poems and wrote Book 1 of Gunslinger.

Ed Dorn started working with Gordon Brotherston on translations from Latin American texts, solidified his close friendship with British poet J H Prynne, and met his second wife, Jennifer Dunbar.

On returning to the United States, Ed Dorn spent the 1970s as an academic migrant, teaching at over half a dozen universities across the country.

In 1977 Ed Dorn accepted a professorship at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he taught for the rest of his life, directing the Creative Writing Program and editing the literary newspaper Rolling Stock with his wife Jennifer.

Ed Dorn was writing another long narrative poem Westward Haut.

Ed Dorn died of pancreatic cancer on December 10, 1999 in Denver, Colorado.

Ed Dorn's papers are collected at the University of Connecticut as well as at Indiana University at Bloomington.

Ed Dorn's second wife, Jennifer Dunbar Dorn, is an Englishwoman he met during his Essex-years.