Contact Information:
466 Bartlett Hall
UMass
Amherst, MA 0l003
p: 413-545-5503
f: 413-545-3880
tate@hfa.umass.edu
Last Modified: Nov. 2007 |
Distinguished University Professor
Educated at Kansas State College, B.A., 1965; University of Iowa, M.F.A.
Areas of specialty: Writing poetry.
Tate is the author of Memoir of the Hawk : Shroud of the Gnome ; Worshipful Company of Fletchers , which won the National Book Award; Selected Poems , which won the Pulitzer Prize and the William Carlos Williams Award; Distance from Loved Ones ; Reckoner ; Constant Defender ; Riven Doggeries ; Viper Jazz ; Absences ; Hints to Pilgrims ; The Oblivion Ha-Ha ; and The Lost Pilot , selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. He has published two books of prose, Dreams of a Robot Dancing Bee and The Route as Briefed . His awards include a National Institute of Arts and Letters Award, the Wallace Stevens Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He is currently a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets.
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