Baron Wormser

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Baron Wormser
Baron Wormser Poetry Society of Vermont Fall Workshop-Luncheon Quechee Inn Quechee VT October 2021 04.jpg
Poetry Society of Vermont Fall Workshop/Luncheon in Quechee, Vermont
October 30, 2021
Born(1948-02-15)February 15, 1948
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Occupation poet, essayist, novelist, critic, educator
Education Johns Hopkins University
Notable worksImpenitent Notes, Carthage
Notable awardsFrederick Bock Prize from Poetry, Kathryn A. Morton Prize, Bread Loaf fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship
Website
baronwormser.com

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

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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

Prose

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. 1 2 3 4 "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. 1 2 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. 1 2 Books, baronwormser.com. Retrieved 2016-05-15.