W.T. Pfefferle is a Canadian author and poet born in 1962 in

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, Canada, but who was based in

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for many years. He's the author of five books. The most recent is ''My Coolest Shirt'', published in April 2015 by The Word Works Press. His early poetry collection, ''The Meager Life and Modest Times of Pop Thorndale'', won the Stevens Poetry Manuscript Prize in 2007. He has worked as a college professor, as the Director of Expository Writing at the

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, and more recently as a tenured professor at

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. He co-authored ''Plug In: The Guide to Music on the Internet'' with Ted M. Gurley, a media executive in Texas. Pfefferle also wrote ''Writing What Matters'', a collegiate writing textbook. In 2004, Pfefferle published '' Poets on Place,'' the story of his year-long trip around America interviewing and photographing American poets:

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Rita Dove Rita Frances Dove (born August 28, 1952) is an American poet and essayist. From 1993 to 1995, she served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. She is the first African American to have been appointed since the posit ...

Denise Duhamel Denise Duhamel (born 1961 in Woonsocket, Rhode Island) is an American poet. Background Duhamel received her B.F.A. from Emerson College and her M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College. She is a New York Foundation for the Arts recipient and has been ...

, Charles Wright,

Mark Wunderlich Mark Wunderlich ( ; born 1968), is an American poet. He was born in Winona, Minnesota, and grew up in a rural setting near the town of Fountain City, Wisconsin. He attended Concordia College's Institute for German Studies before transferring to ...

, Henry Taylor,

David St. John David St. John (born July 24, 1949) is an American poet. Biography Born in Fresno, California, he was educated at California State University, Fresno, where he studied with poet Philip Levine, and at the University of Iowa, receiving an M.F.A. ...

, and

Nikki Giovanni Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni Jr. (born June 7, 1943) is an American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator. One of the world's most well-known African-American poets,Jane M. Barstow, Yolanda Williams Page (eds)"Nikki Giovanni" ''E ...

External links

Official website

"Bad History" poem from Virginia Quarterly Review

Pfefferle's Award No 'Meager' Accomplishment"
1962 births Canadian male poets Living people Canadian emigrants to the United States Johns Hopkins University faculty Writers from Hamilton, Ontario 20th-century Canadian male writers 20th-century Canadian poets {{Canada-poet-stub