Different Hours

Stephen Dunn (1939-2021) was an American poet born in Forest Hills, Queens, New York, who authored 21 collections of poetry, including his Pulitzer Prize-winning Different Hours (2000) and his final work The Not Yet Fallen World (2022).<span title="citation:1">Wikipedia, Poetry Foundation</span> He earned degrees from Hofstra University and Syracuse University, played professional basketball briefly, worked in advertising, and taught creative writing for decades at Stockton University and other institutions, receiving fellowships from the NEA, Guggenheim, and Rockefeller foundations.<span title="citation:2">Wikipedia, Poetry Foundation</span>