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'''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>
and The Falls of the Wyona, from Red Hen Press, winner of the 2017 Quill Prose Prize for Queer Fiction.
David Brendan Hopes is an American poet, playwright, and writer, born in Akron, Ohio, in 1950. Works in poetry include The Glacier’s Daughters (U of Mass Press) which won both the Juniper and the Saxifrage Prize; 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. (A Sense of the Morning first appeared from Dodd, Mead, the year of its demise ) His memoir of becoming a poet, A Childhood in the Milky Way, was published by Akron University Press. As a playwright, his works Abbott’s Dance, 7 Reece Mews, Edward the King, and The Loves of Mr Lincoln have so far been produced in New York. Other dramatic works, St Patrick’s Well, Bronzino’s Gaze, Uranium 235, Washington Place, and Night Music have been produced at regional venues. Night Music won the 2016 North Carolina Playwrights Prize. Two novels are due in 2019– Night, Sleep, and the Dreams of Lovers from Black Mountain Press, and The Falls of the Wyona, which won Red Hen’s 2017 Quill Prize for Queer Fiction.
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