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Baron Wormser (born 1948, in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American poet.[1]

Biography

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

Wormser has lived in Cabot[10] and currently lives in Montpelier, Vermont with his wife, Janet.[11]

Awards

Works

  • 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

  • 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

References

  1. ^ "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.
  2. ^ a b c d "Baron Wormser". Poetry Foundation. 2021-11-02. Retrieved 2021-11-02.
  3. ^ "Maine". The Library of Congress. The Library of Congress. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
  4. ^ "Poet Laureate History". Maine Arts Commission. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
  5. ^ a b Bio, baronwormser.com. Retrieved 2016-05-15.
  6. ^ Aleshire, Benjamin. "Baron Wormser's Latest Novel Invokes the Voice of a Young Bob Dylan". Seven Days. Retrieved 2021-11-02.
  7. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on July 17, 2011. Retrieved May 23, 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. ^ "The Frost Place Conference on Poetry & Teaching". Archived from the original on June 25, 2010. Retrieved May 23, 2010.
  9. ^ Martin, John. "The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor". The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor. Retrieved 2021-11-02.
  10. ^ "Baron Wormser Biography - Biography of Baron Wormser". Poem Hunter. Retrieved 2021-11-02.
  11. ^ "Wormser | A Writing House". baronwormser.com. Retrieved 2021-11-02.
  12. ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Baron Wormser". Retrieved 2021-11-02.
  13. ^ a b Books, baronwormser.com. Retrieved 2016-05-15.
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