William Pitt Root
Encyclopedia
William Pitt Root is an American poet
.
He was raised in Fort Myers, Florida
.
He studied at the University of Washington
, and University of North Carolina
.
He was Tucson Poet Laureate from 1997 to 2002, and taught at Hunter College
.
He was an US/UK Exchange Artist, Rockefeller Foundation
fellow, Guggenheim Fellow, Wallace Stegner
Fellow at Stanford University
, and an NEA
fellow.
His work appeared in Asheville Poetry Review, The Atlantic, New Yorker, Harpers, The Nation, Commonweal, American Poetry Review, Triquarterly, and Poetry. He is poetry editor of Cutthroat Magazine.
He is married to poet Pamela Uschuk
; they live near Durango, Colorado
.
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
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He was raised in Fort Myers, Florida
Fort Myers, Florida
Fort Myers is the county seat and commercial center of Lee County, Florida, United States. Its population was 62,298 in the 2010 census, a 29.23 percent increase over the 2000 figure....
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He studied at the University of Washington
University of Washington
University of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University...
, and University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina
Chartered in 1789, the University of North Carolina was one of the first public universities in the United States and the only one to graduate students in the eighteenth century...
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He was Tucson Poet Laureate from 1997 to 2002, and taught at Hunter College
Hunter College
Hunter College, established in 1870, is a public university and one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York, located on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Hunter grants undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate degrees in more than one hundred fields of study, and is recognized...
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He was an US/UK Exchange Artist, Rockefeller Foundation
Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation is a prominent philanthropic organization and private foundation based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City. The preeminent institution established by the six-generation Rockefeller family, it was founded by John D. Rockefeller , along with his son John D. Rockefeller, Jr...
fellow, Guggenheim Fellow, Wallace Stegner
Wallace Stegner
Wallace Earle Stegner was an American historian, novelist, short story writer, and environmentalist, often called "The Dean of Western Writers"...
Fellow at Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
, and an NEA
National Endowment for the Arts
The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...
fellow.
His work appeared in Asheville Poetry Review, The Atlantic, New Yorker, Harpers, The Nation, Commonweal, American Poetry Review, Triquarterly, and Poetry. He is poetry editor of Cutthroat Magazine.
He is married to poet Pamela Uschuk
Pamela Uschuk
Pamela Uschuk is an American poet, and Visiting Poet at University of Tennessee. She won a 2010 American Book Award, for Crazy Love: New Poems.She studied at Interlochen Arts Academy....
; they live near Durango, Colorado
Durango, Colorado
The City of Durango is a Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat and the most populous city of La Plata County, Colorado, United States. The United States Census Bureau said that the city population was 16,887 in 2010 census.-History:...
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Works
- "Song of the Piper", Poetry Foundation
- "Temperance Poems", Poetry Foundation
- White Boots: New and Selected Poems of the West Carolina Wren Press, 2006, ISBN 9780932112514
- Trace Elements from a Recurring Kingdom: The First Five Books of WPR Confluence Press, 1994, ISBN 9781881090120
- Faultdancing, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1986, ISBN 9780822935308
- Invisible Guests (1983)
- Reasons for Going It on Foot Atheneum, 1981, ISBN 9780689111648
- In the World's Common Grasses Moving Parts Press, 1981
- Coot and Other Characters Confluence Press, 1977, ISBN 9780917652035
- Fireclock Four Zoas Night House, 1981, ISBN 9780939622214
- Striking the Dark Air for Music Atheneum, 1973, ISBN 9780689105586
- The Storm and Other Poems Atheneum, 1969; reprint Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2005, ISBN 9780887484445
External links
- "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