Geoffrey Nutter is an American

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, born in Sacramento and based in New York. He is the author of six collections of poetry: ''A Summer Evening'' (winner of the 2001 Colorado Prize), ''Water's Leaves & Other Poems'' (winner of the 2004 Verse Press Prize), ''Christopher Sunset'' (Wave Books, 2010), ''The Rose of January'' (Wave Books, 2013), ''Cities at Dawn'' (Wave Books, 2016), and ''Giant Moth Perishes'' (Wave Books, 2021). He earned degrees from both

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and the

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. His poems have been widely anthologized, including in ''

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'', ''The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries'' and ''Isn't It Romantic: 100 Poems by Younger American Poets''. He is an associate professor of creative writing at

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and has taught poetry at Princeton University, The New School, The

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, Columbia University School of the Arts, the 92nd Street Y in NYC, and was a visiting professor at the University of Iowa in 2011. He has also taught poetry-writing to children in Harlem, the Bronx, and Paris. In 2019, he visited China, giving lectures, workshops, and readings as a participant in the

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Writers’ Residency.

Bibliography

*''Giant Moth Perishes'' (

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, 2021) *''Cities at Dawn'' (

, 2016) *''The Rose of January'' (

, 2013) *''Christopher Sunset'' (

, 2010) *''Water's Leaves & Other Poems'' (Verse Press, 2004) *''A Summer Evening'' (Center for Literary Publishing, 2001)

References

External links

Geoffrey Nutter's Author Page at Wave BooksReview of Geoffery Nutter's ''Christopher Sunset'' by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
* ttp://cwp.fas.nyu.edu/object/cwp.faculty.geoffreynutter Geoffrey Nutter's NYU Biobr>Review of Geoffrey Nutter's Christopher Sunset by Jake Fournier
* Geoffrey Nutter's poe
"Mother's Day" in ''Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts'' (23.1)
* Geoffrey Nutter's poe
"The Real World and the Dream World" in ''Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts'' (23.1)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Nutter, Geoffrey Living people Year of birth missing (living people) San Francisco State University alumni Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni American male poets