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{{short description|American author, playwright, and poet (born 1950)}}
'''David Brendan Hopes''' (born 1950 in [[Akron, Ohio|Akron]], [[Ohio]]) is an [[United States|American]] author, playwright, and poet. He is a professor of literature at the [[University of North Carolina at Asheville]]. He is the author of ''Bird Songs of the Mesozoic'',<ref>{{cite news |title=BOOK REVIEW: Walk on the wild side |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=NP&p_theme=np&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=10A8AB24CD465AB9&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |work=[[Naperville Sun]] |date=2005-05-19 |accessdate=2008-05-04 }}</ref> ''Abbott's Dance '', ''Man in Flight '', ''[[Edward the King (play)|Edward The King]]'', ''7 Reece Mews '',<ref>{{cite news |title=Monday Morning Productions Presents The New York City Premiere of David Brendan Hopes ’7 REECE MEWS |url=http://www.broadwayworld.com/read.cfm?prid=31921 |work=broadwayworld.com |publisher=Wisdom Digital Media |date=2004-05-16 |accessdate=2008-05-04 }}</ref> ''A Dream of Adonis'',<ref>http://library.stmarytx.edu/pgpress/authors/david_hopes/index.html</ref> ''A Sense of the Morning''<ref>{{cite news |title=AN EYES-OPEN WALK THROUGH THE WOODS |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SB&p_theme=sb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB0D8819E778883&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |work=[[The Sacramento Bee]] |date=1988-07-19 |accessdate=2008-05-04 }}</ref> and ''[[A Childhood in the Milky Way]]''.<ref>{{cite news |title=PATH TO POETRY BEGINS IN OHIO GROWING UP IN AKRON IS TEACHER'S IMPETUS FOR COLLECTION |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AK&s_site=ohio&p_multi=AK&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB6D7C328B7BA72&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |work=[[Akron Beacon Journal]] |date=1999-04-10 |accessdate=2008-05-04 }}</ref>▼
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{{notability|academics|date=November 2018}}}}'''David Brendan Hopes''' (born 1950 in [[Akron, Ohio|Akron]], [[Ohio]]) is an American author, playwright, and poet. He is a professor of literature at the [[University of North Carolina at Asheville]].
== Early life ==
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== Works ==
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Works in poetry include The Glacier's Daughters (U of Mass Press) which won the Juniper and the Saxifrage Prizes; The Basswood Tree (Franciscan Press) Blood Rose (Urthona Press), A Dream of Adonis (Pecan Grove) and Peniel (St. Julian Press).
Milkweed Editions published two collections of nature essays, ''A Sense of the Morning'' and ''Bird Songs of the Mesozoic''. His memoir of becoming a poet, ''A Childhood in the Milky Way'', was published by Akron University Press. As a playwright, his works include ''Abbott’s Dance'', ''7 Reece Mews'', ''Edward the King'', and ''The Loves of Mr Lincoln'' (all staged in New York). Other dramatic works, ''St Patrick’s Well'', ''Bronzino’s Gaze'', ''Uranium 235'', ''Washington Place'' and ''Night Music'' have been staged at regional venues. ''Night Music'' won the 2016 North Carolina Playwrights Prize. His novel ''The Falls of the Wyona'' won Red Hen Press's 2017 Quill Prose Award for Queer Fiction.
==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071114094404/http://www.unca.edu/lit/faculty/hopes.htm UNC Asheville Faculty page]
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