Baron Wormser, Maine
Baron
Wormser is the author of six poetry collections, the most recent of which
is Mulroney and Others, as well as a guide for teaching poetry,
Teaching the Art of Poetry: the Moves. His poems, essays, and reviews
have appeared in a wide variety of journals including The Paris Review,
The New Republic, and Harper's. Wormser has received fellowships
from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Guggenheim Memorial
Foundation. He also won the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry in 1996.
Wormser teaches at the Robert Frost Place and the Stonecoast MFA program.
Appointment: Named in 2000
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Maine attaches no official responsibilities whatsoever to the laureate
position. Nor does it pay anything. It is purely honorary. I seek to bring
poetry to classrooms and communities and am particularly interested
in working with teachers on the teaching of poetry. I am featured on the
Maine Arts Commission web site and am the second laureate Maine has had.
My term is for five years.
–Baron Wormser
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