William Pitt Root (born 1941 Austin, Minnesota) is an American

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...

. He was raised in

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. He studied at the

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, and University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He was Tucson Poet Laureate from 1997 to 2002, and taught at

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. He was a US/UK Exchange Artist,

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fellow,

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Fellow at

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, 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''.About Us
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Pamela Uschuk Pamela Uschuk is an American poet, and 2011 Visiting Poet at University of Tennessee. She won a 2010 American Book Award, for ''Crazy Love: New Poems''. Life Born in 1953 and raised on a farm in Michigan, she received her B.A. In English (''cum ...

; they live near

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and Tucson Arizona

Works

"Song of the Piper"
''Poetry Foundation''

''Poetry Foundation'' * "Strange Angels: New Poems" Wins Press, 2013, * "Sublime Blue: Selected Early Odes of Pablo Neruda" Wings Press, 2013, * ''White Boots: New and Selected Poems of the West'' Carolina Wren Press, 2006, * ''Trace Elements from a Recurring Kingdom: The First Five Books of WPR'' Confluence Press, 1994, * ''Faultdancing'', University of Pittsburgh Press, 1986, * ''Invisible Guests'' (1983) * ''Reasons for Going It on Foot'' Atheneum, 1981, * ''In the World's Common Grasses'' Moving Parts Press, 1981 * ''Coot and Other Characters'' Confluence Press, 1977, * ''Fireclock'' Four Zoas Night House, 1981, * ''Striking the Dark Air for Music'' Atheneum, 1973, * ''The Storm and Other Poems'' Atheneum, 1969; reprint Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2005,

References

External links

"An Interview with William Pitt Root"
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''Tucson Weekly'', 1998

''The Drunken Boat'', October 2003
"White Boots: New and selected poems of the West"
''InsideOutMag'', March April 2007, Katharine Niles {{DEFAULTSORT:Root, William Pitt 1941 births Living people American male poets University of Washington alumni University of North Carolina at Greensboro alumni Hunter College faculty Rockefeller Fellows National Endowment for the Arts Fellows People from Austin, Minnesota Poets from Minnesota People from Fort Myers, Florida Poets from Florida Stegner Fellows