Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Steve Gehrke

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The result was keep‎. It would be wonderful if these sources could find their way into the article. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 05:58, 12 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Steve Gehrke

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Appears to fail WP:N based on review of internet presence, and does not appear to satisfy WP:NACADEMIC either (closest criterion would be #1, but the awards and works do not seem to rise much beyond the level that one would ordinarily need to receive tenure, which is not sufficient to satisfy the guideline) Go Phightins! 14:01, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Poetry and Minnesota. Deltaspace⁴² (talk • contribs) 14:03, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 07:30, 29 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Meets WP:POET. Coverage includes:

Barkan, Leonard (2008). "Picture This". Parnassus: Poetry in Review. 30 (1/2): 419–438. Perhaps what is needed is simply a richer narrative than one in which the poet soliloquizes or in which pictorial subjects are given a chance to exorcise their silence. Steve Gehrke's Michelangelo's Seizure represents a dazzling success in this vein. In one sense, the book takes the form of the familiar picture gallery, from the Sistine Chapel to Mapplethorpe, but in this instance the poet has done his homework before coming to the museum. He has immersed himself in the lives of painters and subjects, so that they take on some of Lucrece's fictional multi-dimensionality, which is the proper province of language, and which enables us to see both into and through the images on the walls...
Kaufman, E.M. (2007-08-01). "Michelangelo's Seizure". Library Journal. 132 (13). This is Gehrke's third book of poetry; the first two won prestigious prizes, and this one was selected for the National Poetry Series by T.R. Hummer. These brawny, ekphrastic poems trace the artistic endeavors of several great artists... [T]his poet's powers extend considerably beyond the easy metaphor. Recommended.
Beaven, Craig (2007). "The 2005 National Poetry Series". Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature & Fine Arts. 19 (2): 308–312. Among poets, the oeuvre of Steve Gehrke has become something of a legend. Gehrke's first collection of poems, The Resurrection Machine, won the John Ciardi Prize from BkMk Press when he was just 29 years old; his second, The Pyramids of Malpighi, was published by Anhinga Press four years later, receiving the Philip Levine Prize (judged by Levine himself). And now his third book, Michelangelo's Seizure, has been selected by T. R. Hummer for the 2005 National Poetry Series.
Welch, Kathleen (2002). "Book Review: Life, Death and Love in the Hum of Medical Technology: The Resurrection Machine, by Steve Gehrke. Kansas City, MO: University of Missouri-Kansas City Bookmark Press, 2000". The Journal of Medical Humanities. 23 (3/4): 272–274. Selected for the 1999 John Ciardi Prize for Poetry, Steve Gehrke’s poetry book, The Resurrection Machine, poignantly discusses issues such as disease, degeneration, death, love, transplantation, and loss... It is refreshing to read a poet who unusually captures the essence of current medical ethics without polarizing the moral dilemmas of modern medicine.

This is sufficient coverage to establish that Gehrke meets WP:POET, which requires that [t]he person's work (or works) has ... won significant critical attention. Jfire (talk) 21:17, 29 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, thanks to sufficient sources provided by Jfire. TheOmniDex (talk) 19:53, 5 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 03:14, 5 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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