William Wadsworth (poet)

William Wadsworth (born 1950) is an American poet.

Wadsworth's work has appeared in The New Republic, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, Tin House, Salmagundi, and the Boston Review, among other magazines, as well as in several anthologies, including The Best American Erotic Poems, edited by David Lehman, and the Library of America Anthology of American Religious Poems, edited by Harold Bloom. His collection of poems, The Physicist on a Cold Night Explains, was published by Vaso Roto Press in 2010.

From 1989 to 2001, Wadsworth served as executive director of the Academy of American Poets,[1] where he oversaw the launch of the seminal website poets.org and the inauguration of April as National Poetry Month, among other national arts initiatives.[2] He currently teaches in the Columbia University MFA Writing Program, where he has served as Director of Academic Administration since 2008.[3]

References

  1. Wadsworth, William (21 May 2007). "William Wadsworth". William Wadsworth. Retrieved 27 June 2018.
  2. Kirkpatrick, David D. "Poets' Group Ousts Chief, Igniting Ire Of Members". New York Times. Retrieved 27 June 2018.
  3. "CU People: William Wadsworth, Director of Academic Administration in the Writing Program". columbia.edu. 23 December 2016. Retrieved 27 June 2018.


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