Baron Wormser (born 1948, in

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) is an American poet.

Biography

Baron Wormser was born in Baltimore on February 15, 1948. He earned his BA from Johns Hopkins University, later doing graduate studies at the

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and University of Maine. Wormser served as librarian for 25 years in Madison, Maine. Wormser served as Poet Laureate of Maine from 2000 to 2006.Bio
''baronwormser.com''. Retrieved 2016-05-15. In 2000, he was writer in residence at the University of South Dakota. Since 2002, he has taught in the Stonecoast MFA program at the University of Maine-Farmington, and since 2009,

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. He founded the Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching at

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in Franconia, New Hampshire and is currently director of educational outreach at the Frost Place. Wormser's poems have been read by

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Personal

Wormser has lived in

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and currently lives in Montpelier, Vermont with his wife, Janet.

Awards

* Frederick Bock Prize from Poetry * Kathryn A. Morton Prize * Bread Loaf fellowship * National Endowment for the Arts fellowship * 1998

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Works

*''Songs From a Voice: Being the Recollections, Stanzas, and Observations of Abe Runyan, Song Writer and Performer,'' Woodhall Press, 2021 *''Impenitent Notes'', CavanKerry Press, 2011 *''Scattered Chapters: New and Selected Poems'', Sarabande Books, 2008 *''Carthage'' Illuminated Sea Press, 2005 *''Subject Matter'' Sarabande Books, 2004 *''Mulroney and Others'' Sarabande Books, 2000 *''When'' Sarabande Books, 1997 *''Atoms, Soul Music and Other Poems'' Paris Review Editions, 1989 *''Good Trembling,'' Houghton Mifflin, 1985 *''The White Words'' Houghton Mifflin, 1983Books
''baronwormser.com''. Retrieved 2016-05-15.

Prose

*''Teach Us That Peace'', Piscataqua Press, 2013 *''The Poetry Life: Ten Stories'' CavanKerry Press, 2008 *''The Road Washes Out in Spring: A Poet's Memoir of Living Off the Grid'' UPNE, 2006 *''A Surge of Language: Teaching Poetry Day by Day'', co-author David Cappella, Heinemann, 2004 *''Teaching the Art of Poetry: The Moves'', co-author David Cappella, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000

External links

Author's website

Poets.org bio

References

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