William Pitt Root Explained

William Pitt Root (born 1941 Austin, Minnesota) is an American poet.[1]

He was raised in Fort Myers, Florida.[2]

He studied at the University of Washington, and University of North Carolina at Greensboro.[3]

He was Tucson Poet Laureate from 1997 to 2002, and taught at Hunter College.[4] He was a US/UK Exchange Artist, Rockefeller Foundation fellow, Guggenheim Fellow,[5] Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, and an NEA fellow.[6]

His work appeared in Asheville Poetry Review,[7] The Atlantic,[8] The New Yorker,[9] Harpers,[10] The Nation, Commonweal, The American Poetry Review, Tri@uarterly, and Poetry. He is poetry editor of Cutthroat Magazine.[11]

He is married to poet Pamela Uschuk; they live near Durango, Colorado and Tucson Arizona

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  1. http://www.cutthroatmag.com/root.html root
  2. http://www.pw.org/content/william_pitt_root_1 William Pitt Root | Directory of Writers | Poets & Writers
  3. Web site: William Pitt Root . 13 February 2024 .
  4. http://www.coloradopoetscenter.org/poets/root_william-pitt/ Colorado Poets Center : William Pitt Root
  5. http://www.gf.org/fellows/12470-william-pitt-root William Pitt Root – John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  6. http://www.meachamwriters.org/writers/william-pitt-root.htm William Pitt Root
  7. http://www.ashevillepoetryreview.com/tag/william-pitt-root William Pitt Root
  8. https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/poetry/antholog/root/wherever.htm The Atlantic | January 2002 | Wherever | Root
  9. http://www.newyorker.com/search?qt=dismax&sort=score+desc&query=william+pitt+root+&submit= william pitt root | Search : The New Yorker
  10. Web site: Nothing found for Archive 1974 05 0022000.
  11. http://www.cutthroatmag.com/about.html About Us