Tory Dent

Victorine "Tory" Dent (January 1, 1958 – December 30, 2005) was an American poet, art critic, and commentator on the AIDS crisis.

Life

Dent was born in 1958 in Wilmington, Delaware. She graduated from Barnard College in 1981 and then got a master's degree in creative writing from New York University. She was diagnosed with HIV when she was 30 years old. Dent spent most of her adult life in New York City and Maine. She married writer Sean Harvey in 1999. She died on December 30, 2005, in her apartment in the East Village, Manhattan of the AIDS-associated infection PML.

Career

Dent's poetry was often about her struggles and experiences living with HIV. She was the author of Black Milk (Sheep Meadow Press, 2005); HIV, Mon Amour (Sheep Meadow Press, 1999), which won the 1999 James Laughlin Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and What Silence Equals (Persea Books, 1993). Her honors include grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund; a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award; and three PEN American Center Grants for Writers with AIDS. Her poetry appeared in periodicals such as AGNI, The Antioch Review, The Kenyon Review, The Paris Review, Partisan Review, Ploughshares, and Fence. Dent had also written art criticism for magazines including Arts, Flash Art, and Parachute, as well as catalog essays for art exhibitions.

Bibliography

Anthologies

References

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  2. ↑ "Tory Dent". Academy of American Poets. Retrieved May 13, 2025.
  3. 1 2 3 Rourke, Mary (January 9, 2006). "Tory Dent, 47; Poet Wrote About Fight With AIDS". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2025-05-13.
  4. ↑ Saxon, Wolfgang (January 3, 2006). "Tory Dent, Poet Who Wrote of Living With H.I.V., Dies at 47". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
  5. ↑ "James Laughlin Award". Academy of American Poets. Retrieved May 13, 2025.
  6. ↑ "1999". National Book Critics Circle. Retrieved May 13, 2025.
  7. ↑ "Tory Dent". Guggenheim Fellowships. Retrieved May 13, 2025.
  8. ↑ "Winner, Tory Dent". Rona Jaffe Foundation. Retrieved May 13, 2025.
  9. ↑ Dent, Tory (April 15, 1993). "Poem for a Poem". AGNI Online.
  10. ↑ Dent, Tory (2000). "Hated". The Antioch Review. 58 (2): 182–183. doi:10.2307/4613981. ISSN 0003-5769. JSTOR 4613981.
  11. ↑ "Tory Dent". The Kenyon Review. Retrieved May 13, 2025.
  12. ↑ "Tory Dent". The Paris Review. Retrieved May 13, 2025.
  13. ↑ Dent, Tory (1991). "Walking Away I". Partisan Review. Vol. 58, no. 4. p. 689.
  14. ↑ "Tory Dent". Ploughshares. Retrieved May 13, 2025.
  15. ↑ Dent, Tory (2004). "The Part of Me That's O". Fence. Vol. 7, no. 1. p. 80.
  16. 1 2 "About the Poets". Agni (37): 116–119. 1993. ISSN 1046-218X. JSTOR 23009287.
  17. ↑ Pontbriand, Chantal, ed. (2016). Parachute: The Anthology, Vol. IV: 1975-2000. Zurich: JRP/Ringier. ISBN 978-3-03764-418-8.
  18. ↑ "Tori Dent - MacDowell Fellow in Literature". MacDowell. Retrieved 2026-01-30.