Dennis Nurkse is a poet from Brooklyn. Life Nurkse is the son of the eminent Estonian economist Ragnar Nurkse. He has taught workshops at Rikers Island, and his poems about prison life appeared in The American Poetry Review, Evergreen Review, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, TriQuarterly, The Kenyon Review, and other magazines. He has taught at The New School University and Columbia University, and is currently on the faculty at Sarah Lawrence College. He has translated anonymous medieval and flamenco Spanish lyric poems and has written about the Spanish pastoral poems by contemporary Giannina Braschi. His work has appeared in The Evergreen Review, The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, The Times Literary Supplement, Ploughshares, The Paris Review. His subjects have included mental health, trauma, and September 11 terrorist attacks. Honors and awards 2007 Guggenheim Fellow 1990 Whiting Award NEA fellowship NYFA fellowships Bibliography Poetry Collections Staggered Lights, Owl Creek Press, (July 1990), Voices Over Water, Graywolf Press (July 1993), Leaving Xaia, Four Way Books The Rules of Paradise, Four Way books The Fall, Knopf The Border Kingdom, Alfred A. Knopf, August 8, 2008 A Night in Brooklyn, Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. List of poems Anthologies References External links Interview with Dennis Nurkse in the Bloomsbury Review Profile at The Whiting Foundation Poets from New York (state) Writers from Brooklyn The New Yorker people Sarah Lawrence College faculty National Endowment for the Arts Fellows American male poets Living people American people of Estonian descent Year of birth missing (living people) The New School faculty Columbia University faculty