Wyatt Prunty

Wyatt Prunty (born May 15, 1947, in Humboldt, Tennessee) is an American poet and author associated with the New Formalism movement. He is the author of eight collections of poetry and two books of criticism and is a frequent reviewer and essayist for poetry and literary journals. He has taught at Louisiana State University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Washington and Lee University, Johns Hopkins University, and since 1989, Sewanee: University of the South, where he is the Ogden D. Carlton Chair of English and founding director of the Sewanee Writers' Conference. His recent work has appeared in Atlantic Monthly, Kenyon Review, The Hopkins Review, New Republic, Poetry, Southwest Review, Yale Review, and has been featured on Public Television and National Public Radio. Prunty currently resides in Sewanee, Tennessee.

Awards

• 2001 Guggenheim Fellowship

Poetry collections

• Domestic of the Outer Banks, Inland Boat/Porch, 1980
• The Times Between, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982, ISBN 9780801824074
• What Women Know, What Men Believe. JHU Press. 1986. ISBN 9780801833281. http://books.google.com/books?id=CHBB2KuBY2YC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Wyatt+Prunty&hl=en&ei=RN8LTu-rLIXk0QHg9rCKAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CEUQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q&f=false. 
• Balance as Belief, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989, ISBN 9780801838941
• The Run of the House. JHU Press. 1993. ISBN 9780801846267. http://books.google.com/books?id=aa-H8jBdmHcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Wyatt+Prunty&hl=en&ei=RN8LTu-rLIXk0QHg9rCKAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDsQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false. 
• Since the Noon Mail Stopped Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997, ISBN 9780801856464
• Unarmed and Dangerous: New and Selected Poems. JHU Press. 2000. ISBN 9780801862908. http://books.google.com/books?id=YLHHwwseTcYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Wyatt+Prunty&hl=en&ei=RN8LTu-rLIXk0QHg9rCKAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false. 
• The Lover's Guide to Trapping, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009, ISBN 9780801892790

Books

• Fallen from the Symboled World: Precedents for the New Formalism. Oxford University Press. 1990. ISBN 9780195057867. http://books.google.com/books?id=CpVaTnqSiAMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Wyatt+Prunty+fallen&hl=en&ei=3OELTpugDsnn0QHE-bT9DQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false. 
• Sewanee Writers on Writing, Louisiana State University Press, 2000, ISBN 9780807126318