Baron Wormser
Baron Wormser | |
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 Poetry Society of Vermont Fall Workshop/Luncheon in Quechee, Vermont October 30, 2021 | |
| Born | February 15, 1948 Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
| Occupation | poet, essayist, novelist, critic, educator |
| Education | Johns Hopkins University |
| Notable works | Impenitent Notes, Carthage |
| Notable awards | Frederick Bock Prize from Poetry, Kathryn A. Morton Prize, Bread Loaf fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship |
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Baron Wormser (born 1948) is an American poet from Baltimore, Maryland.[1]
Biography
[edit]Baron Wormser was born in Baltimore on February 15, 1948. He earned his BA from Johns Hopkins University, and later completed graduate studies at the University of California-Irvine and University of Maine.[2] Wormser served as librarian for 25 years in Madison, Maine.[2]
Wormser served as Poet Laureate of Maine from 2000 to 2006.[3][4][5][6] In 2000, he was a writer in residence at the University of South Dakota. Since 2002, he has taught in the Stonecoast MFA program at the University of Maine-Farmington,[2] and since 2009, Fairfield University.[5][7]
He founded the Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching at The Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire[8] and is currently director of educational outreach at the Frost Place.[2]
Garrison Keillor has read Wormser's poems on The Writer's Almanac.[9]
Personal
[edit]Wormser has lived in Cabot[10] and currently lives in Montpelier, Vermont with his wife, Janet.[11]
Awards
[edit]- Frederick Bock Prize from Poetry
- Kathryn A. Morton Prize
- Bread Loaf fellowship
- National Endowment for the Arts fellowship
- 1998 Guggenheim Fellowship[12]
Works
[edit]- Songs From a Voice: Being the Recollections, Stanzas, and Observations of Abe Runyan, Song Writer and Performer, Woodhall Press, 2021
- 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[13]
Prose
[edit]- 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[13]
External links
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "University of New England - Acclaimed New England poet Baron Wormser to read from his work April 22". Archived from the original on December 21, 2010. Retrieved May 23, 2010.
- ^ a b c d "Baron Wormser". Poetry Foundation. 2021-11-02. Retrieved 2021-11-02.
- ^ "Maine". The Library of Congress. The Library of Congress. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
- ^ "Poet Laureate History". Maine Arts Commission. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
- ^ a b Bio, baronwormser.com. Retrieved 2016-05-15.
- ^ Aleshire, Benjamin. "Baron Wormser's Latest Novel Invokes the Voice of a Young Bob Dylan". Seven Days. Retrieved 2021-11-02.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on July 17, 2011. Retrieved May 23, 2010.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "The Frost Place Conference on Poetry & Teaching". Archived from the original on June 25, 2010. Retrieved May 23, 2010.
- ^ Martin, John. "The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor". The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor. Retrieved 2021-11-02.
- ^ "Baron Wormser Biography - Biography of Baron Wormser". Poem Hunter. Retrieved 2021-11-02.
- ^ "Wormser | A Writing House". baronwormser.com. Retrieved 2021-11-02.
- ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Baron Wormser". Retrieved 2021-11-02.
- ^ a b Books, baronwormser.com. Retrieved 2016-05-15.
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