George Witte
George Witte | |
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| Born | Madison, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Duke University University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Occupation(s) | Poet, book editor |
| Employer | St. Martin's Press |
| Known for | Deniability: Poems |
| Movement | Poetry |
George Merrill Witte is an American poet and book editor from Madison, New Jersey. He is editor-in-chief of St. Martin's Press, and the author of An Abundance of Caution, Does She Have a Name?, Deniability: Poems and The Apparitioners: Poems.[1]
Career
[edit]Witte is the author of four books of poetry: An Abundance of Caution, Does She Have a Name?, Deniability, and The Apparitioners. His poems have been published in The Atlantic, The Antioch Review, Boulevard, Gettysburg Review, The Hopkins Review, The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares,[2] Poetry, Prairie Schooner, New York Quarterly,[3] Southwest Review, Virginia Quarterly Review,[4] and The Yale Review.
Witte has also worked in book publishing at St. Martin's Press for 38 years, as an editor, publisher of Picador USA, and now editor-in-chief. A graduate of Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he lives in Ridgewood, New Jersey.[5]
Awards
[edit]Witte received Poetry's Frederick Bock Prize for a group of poems, a poetry fellowship from the New Jersey Council on the Arts and New Jersey Department of State, and his poem "At Dusk, the Catbird" was selected for The Best American Poetry 2007 anthology.
Works
[edit]- An Abundance of Caution, Unbound Edition Press, 2023
- Does She Have a Name? NYQ Books, 2014
- Deniability: Poems. Orchises Press. 2009. ISBN 978-1-932535-19-8.
- The Apparitioners: Poems. Three Rail Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0-9760470-1-8.
Anthologies
[edit]- The Best American Poetry 2007
- Vocabula Bound 2
- Old Flame: From the First 10 Years of 32 Poems
- Rabbit Ears: TV Poems, ed. Joel Allegretti (NYQ Books, 2015)
- The Doll Collection, ed. Diane Lockward (Terrapin Books, 2016)
- Meta-Land: Poets of the Palisades II, ed. Paul Nash and Denise La Neve (The Poet's Press, 2016)
- What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing, ed. Peter Ginna (University of Chicago Press, 2017)
References
[edit]- ^ Witte, George (14 June 2005). "George Witte". Poets & Writers. Retrieved March 11, 2011.
- ^ "Read by Author | Ploughshares".
- ^ "NYQ Poets - George Witte". Archived from the original on 2010-08-15. Retrieved 2010-01-14.
- ^ "George Witte | VQR Online".
- ^ "Selected Works by New Jersey Poets". The New York Times. 2009-01-02. Retrieved 2022-12-10.
New Jersey Monthly: [1]
External links
[edit]- George Witte website [2]
- Facebook [3]
- Instagram [4]
- Goodreads [5]
- "George Witte" at Duke University
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- Living people
- 20th-century American poets
- 20th-century American male writers
- 21st-century American male writers
- 21st-century American poets
- American book editors
- Duke University alumni
- Formalist poets
- People from Madison, New Jersey
- Writers from Ridgewood, New Jersey
- Poets from New Jersey
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni