William Pitt Root (born 1941 Austin, Minnesota) is an American poet. [1]
He was raised in Fort Myers, Florida. [2]
He studied at the University of Washington, and University of North Carolina at Greensboro. [3]
He was Tucson Poet Laureate from 1997 to 2002, and taught at Hunter College. [4] He was a US/UK Exchange Artist, Rockefeller Foundation fellow, Guggenheim Fellow, [5] Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, and an NEA fellow. [6]
His work appeared in Asheville Poetry Review, [7] The Atlantic, [8] The New Yorker, [9] Harpers, [10] The Nation, Commonweal, The American Poetry Review, Tri@uarterly , and Poetry. He is poetry editor of Cutthroat Magazine. [11]
He is married to poet Pamela Uschuk; they live near Durango, Colorado and Tucson Arizona
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