Poets On Place
1998
First Published
4.57
Average Rating
312
Number of Pages
Out to see America and satisfy his travel bug, W. T. Pfefferle resigned from his position as director of the writing program at Johns Hopkins University and hit the road to interview sixty-two poets about the significance of place in their work. The lively conversations that resulted may surprise with the potential meanings of a seemingly simple concept. This gathering of voices and ideas is illustrated with photo and word portraits from the road and represented with suitable poems. The poets are James Harms, David Citino, Martha Collins, Linda Gregerson, Richard Tillinghast, Orlando Ricardo Menes, Mark Strand, Karen Volkman, Lisa Samuels, Marvin Bell, Michael Dennis Browne, David Allan Evans, David Romtvedt, Sandra Alcosser, Robert Wrigley, Nance Van Winckel, Christopher Howell, Mark Halperin, Jana Harris, Sam Hamill, Barbara Drake, Floyd Skloot, Ralph Angel, Carol Muske-Dukes, David St. John, Sharon Bryan, Donald Revell, Claudia Keelan, Alberto Rios, Richard Shelton, Jane Miller, William Wenthe, Naomi Shihab Nye, Peter Cooley, Miller Williams, Beth Ann Fennelly, Natasha Trethewey, Denise Duhamel, Campbell McGrath, Terrance Hayes, Alan Shapiro, Nikki Giovanni, Charles Wright, Rita Dove, Henry Taylor, Dave Smith, Nicole Cooley, David Lehman, Lucie Brock-Broido, Michael S. Harper, C. D. Wright, Mark Wunderlich, James Cummins, Frederick Smock, Mark Jarman, Carl Phillips, Scott Cairns, Elizabeth Dodd, Jonathan Holden, Bin Ramke, Kenneth Brewer, and Paisley Rekdal.
Avg Rating
4.57
Number of Ratings
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Author
W.T. Pfefferle
Author · 2 books
W.T. Pfefferle was born in Winnipeg, and grew up in western Canada. He relocated to the U.S. in the late 1970s to study. He earned his MFA and PhD in the 1980s, and began a 35 year academic teaching career. He was the founding director of the Expository Writing Program at Johns Hopkins. He published five books, and more than a hundred poems, stories, photos, and articles in places like the Chronicle of Higher Education, Poets and Writers, Virginia Quarterly Review, Antioch Review, Carolina Quarterly, Ohio Review, North American Review, and elsewhere. He retired to Oregon in 2018 and left public life in 2020. He has been married to his college sweetheart for 38 years.
