Baron Wormser
Baron Wormser (born 1948 Baltimore, Maryland) is an American poet.[1]
From 2000 to 2006, he served as Poet Laureate of Maine.[2] 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 Southern Maine,[citation needed] and since 2009, Fairfield University.[2][3]
He founded the Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching at The Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire[4] and is currently director of educational outreach at the Frost Place. He has lived in Cabot[5] and Montpelier, Vermont.[2]
Awards
- Frederick Bock Prize from Poetry
- Kathryn A. Morton Prize
- Bread Loaf fellowship
- National Endowment for the Arts fellowship
- 1998 Guggenheim Fellowship[2]
Works
- 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, 1983[6]
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[6]
References
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External links
- Author's website
- A Good Read: Baron Wormser, PBS
- "A Quiet Life" by Baron Wormser, The Writer's Almanac, Jun. 2, 2008. From Scattered Chapters by permission.
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