William Pitt Root (born 1941 Austin, Minnesota) is an American poet.[1]
He was raised in Fort Myers, Florida.[2]
He studied at the University of Washington, and University of North Carolina at Greensboro.[3]
He was Tucson Poet Laureate from 1997 to 2002, and taught at Hunter College.[4] He was a US/UK Exchange Artist, Rockefeller Foundation fellow, Guggenheim Fellow,[5] Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, and an NEA fellow.[6]
His work appeared in Asheville Poetry Review,[7] The Atlantic,[8] The New Yorker,[9] Harpers,[10] The Nation, Commonweal, The American Poetry Review, Tri@uarterly, and Poetry. He is poetry editor of Cutthroat Magazine.[11]
He is married to poet Pamela Uschuk; they live near Durango, Colorado and Tucson Arizona
Works
edit- "Song of the Piper", Poetry Foundation
- "Temperance Poems", Poetry Foundation
- "Strange Angels: New Poems" Wins Press, 2013, ISBN 978-1-60940-319-5
- "Sublime Blue: Selected Early Odes of Pablo Neruda" Wings Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0-916727-87-1
- White Boots: New and Selected Poems of the West Carolina Wren Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-932112-51-4
- Trace Elements from a Recurring Kingdom: The First Five Books of WPR Confluence Press, 1994, ISBN 978-1-881090-12-0
- Faultdancing, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1986, ISBN 978-0-8229-3530-8
- Invisible Guests (1983)
- Reasons for Going It on Foot Atheneum, 1981, ISBN 978-0-689-11164-8
- In the World's Common Grasses Moving Parts Press, 1981
- Coot and Other Characters Confluence Press, 1977, ISBN 978-0-917652-03-5
- Fireclock Four Zoas Night House, 1981, ISBN 978-0-939622-21-4
- Striking the Dark Air for Music Atheneum, 1973, ISBN 978-0-689-10558-6
- The Storm and Other Poems Atheneum, 1969; reprint Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-88748-444-5
References
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- ^ William Pitt Root | Directory of Writers | Poets & Writers
- ^ "William Pitt Root". 13 February 2024.
- ^ Colorado Poets Center : William Pitt Root
- ^ William Pitt Root – John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
- ^ William Pitt Root
- ^ William Pitt Root
- ^ The Atlantic | January 2002 | Wherever | Root
- ^ william pitt root | Search : The New Yorker
- ^ "Nothing found for Archive 1974 05 0022000".
- ^ About Us
External links
edit- "An Interview with William Pitt Root", turnrow
- "WILLIAM PITT ROOT", Tucson Weekly, 1998
- "A Conversation with William Pitt Root", The Drunken Boat, October 2003
- "White Boots: New and selected poems of the West", InsideOutMag, March April 2007, Katharine Niles