Wyatt Prunty

Wyatt Prunty (born May 15, 1947, in Humboldt, Tennessee) is an American poet and author associated with the New Formalism movement. He is the author of six collections of poetry and one book of criticism and is a frequent reviewer or essayist for poetry and literary journals. He has taught at Louisiana State University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and since 1989, the University of the South, where he is Ogden D. Carlton Chair of English and director of the Sewanee Writers' Conference. [http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1257] His works have been featured in numerous publications including the journal of the National Endowment for the Arts and on National Public Radio. [http://www.npr.org/programs/totn/features/2003/apr/poetry/prunty.html] [http://www.nea.gov/about/NEARTS/06-2005marapr/OH3.html] Prunty currently resides in Sewanee, Tennessee. [http://www.sewaneewriters.org/writers/prunty]

Poetry collections

* "The Times Between" (1982)
* "What Women Know, What Men Believe" (1986)
* "Balance as Belief" (1989)
* "The Run of the House" (1993)
* "Since the Noon Mail Stopped" (1997)
* "Unarmed and Dangerous: New and Selected Poems" (2000).

Books

* "Fallen from the Symboled World: Precedents for the New Formalism" {1990).

References