Baron Wormser

Baron Wormser
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 works	Impenitent Notes, Carthage
Notable awards	Frederick 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]

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

• Frederick Bock Prize from Poetry
• Kathryn A. Morton Prize
• Bread Loaf fellowship
• National Endowment for the Arts fellowship
• 1998 Guggenheim Fellowship ^[12]

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

• Author's website
• Poets.org bio

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. "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. 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.
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. Books, baronwormser.com. Retrieved 2016-05-15.