James Tate

James Tate teaches at UMass-Amherst and is the author of 15 books of poetry, most recently, The Ghost Soldiers. Worshipful Company of Fletchers won the National Book Award and Selected Poems won the Pulitzer Prize and William Carlos Williams Award. Other books include Return to the City of White Donkeys, Memoir of the Hawk, Distance from Loved Ones, Constant Defender, and Shroud of the Gnome. He has won a National Institute of Arts and Letters Award, The Wallace Stevens Award, The Tanning Prize, and Guggenheim and NEH fellowships. He has published two books of prose, Dreams of the Robot Dancing Bee and The Route as Briefed, and edited Best American Poetry 1997. His first book, The Lost Pilot, won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. In 2001, he was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

For more information see

  • Selected poems and biography at the Poetry Foundation
  • Selected poems at The Writers' Almanac with Garrison Keillor
  • Tate's bio at Poets.org
  • his interview with Mike Magee at Cross Connect
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  • An article by Angela Patrinos titled "James Tate and Dara Wier at the New School" for The Best American Poetry
  • His Wikipedia article


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