George Witte

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George Witte
Born
Madison, New Jersey, U.S.
Alma mater Duke University
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Occupation(s)Poet, book editor
Employer St. Martin's Press
Known for Deniability: Poems
Movement Poetry

George Merrill Witte is an American poet and book editor from Madison, New Jersey. He is editor-in-chief of St. Martin's Press, and the author of An Abundance of Caution, Does She Have a Name?, Deniability: Poems and The Apparitioners: Poems. [1]

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Career

Witte is the author of four books of poetry: An Abundance of Caution, Does She Have a Name?, Deniability, and The Apparitioners. His poems have been published in The Atlantic , The Antioch Review , Boulevard , Gettysburg Review , The Hopkins Review , The Kenyon Review , Ploughshares , [2] Poetry (magazine) , Prairie Schooner , New York Quarterly , [3] Southwest Review , Virginia Quarterly Review , [4] and The Yale Review .

Witte has also worked in book publishing at St. Martin's Press for 38 years, as an editor, publisher of Picador USA, and now editor-in-chief. A graduate of Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he lives in Ridgewood, New Jersey. [5]

Awards

Witte received Poetry's Frederick Bock Prize for a group of poems, a poetry fellowship from the New Jersey Council on the Arts and New Jersey Department of State, and his poem "At Dusk, the Catbird" was selected for The Best American Poetry 2007 anthology.

Works

Anthologies

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References

  1. ↑ Witte, George (14 June 2005). "George Witte". Poets & Writers . Retrieved March 11, 2011.
  2. ↑ "Read by Author | Ploughshares".
  3. ↑ "NYQ Poets - George Witte". Archived from the original on 2010-08-15. Retrieved 2010-01-14.
  4. ↑ "George Witte | VQR Online".
  5. ↑ "Selected Works by New Jersey Poets". The New York Times. 2009-01-02. Retrieved 2022-12-10.

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