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William Pitt Root

Date of Birth 28-December-1941
Place of Birth Austin
(Mower County, Minnesota, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
William Pitt Root is an American poet. He was raised in Fort Myers, Florida. He studied at the University of Washington, and University of North Carolina. He was Tucson Poet Laureate from 1997 to 2002, and taught at Hunter College. He was an US/UK Exchange Artist, Rockefeller Foundation fellow, Guggenheim Fellow, Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, 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. He is married to poet Pamela Uschuk; they live near Durango, Colorado.

Awards by William Pitt Root

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