- William Matthews (poet)
William Matthews (
November 11 ,1942 –November 12 ,1997 ) was an Americanpoet andessayist .Life
Born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, Matthews earned a bachelor's degree from
Yale University , where he was a member of Wolf's Head Society, and a master's from theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill .In addition to serving as a Writer-in-Residence at Boston's
Emerson College , Matthews held various academic positions at institutions includingCornell University , the University of Washington (Seattle), theUniversity of Colorado at Boulder , and theUniversity of Iowa . At the time of his death he was a professor of English and director of the creative writing program atCity College of New York [http://www1.ccny.cuny.edu] .During his 27 years as an author, Matthews received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, and the
National Endowment for the Arts . In 1997 he was a recipient of theRuth Lilly Poetry Prize .Works
Matthews published 11 books of poetry, including "Time & Money" which won the
National Book Critics Circle Award in 1996 and was aLenore Marshall Poetry Prize finalist. Two posthumous collections have been released: "Search Party: Collected Poems" and "After All: Last Poems". Frequent subjects in his writing are the early years of professional basketball and historical Jazz figures.Bibliography
*"The Parataxic Mode: Concerning Defoe's Use of Irony in Moll Flanders" (1966, MA Thesis, UNC)
*"Broken Syllables" (pamphlet, 1969)
*"Ruining the New Road" (1970)
*"The Cloud" (1971)
*"Matthews' Compleat Palmistry" (1971)
*"Sleek for the Long Flight: New Poems" (1972)
*"Sticks and Stones" (1975)
*"Rising and Falling" (1979)
*"Flood" (1982)
*"Good" (1983)
*"A Happy Childhood" (1984)
*"Foreseeable Futures" (1987)
*"Sleek For the Long Flight" (1988)
*"Blues if You Want" (1989)
*"Curiosities (Poets on Poetry)" (essays, 1989)
*"Selected Poems and Translations, 1969-1991" (1992)
*"The Mortal City: 100 Epigrams of Martial" (translator/editor, 1995)
*"Time & Money: New Poems" (1996)
*"After All: Last Poems" (1998)
*"The Poetry Blues: Essays and Interviews" (ed. Stanley Plumley)
*"The Satires of Horace" (editor/translator, 2002)
*"Search Party: Collected Poems" (2005)External links
* [http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/132 Academy of American Poets: William Matthews]
* [http://capa.conncoll.edu/matthews.rising.htm Text of "Rising and Falling"]
* [http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/library/matthews.html William Matthews Memorial Readings]
* [http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v3n2/nonfiction/wojahn_d/matthews_interview.htm An Interview with William Matthews (David Wojahn, James Harms)]
* [http://www.wooster.edu/artfuldodge/interviews/matthews.htm A Conversation with William Matthews (The Artful Dodge)]
* [http://www.ohioreadingroadtrip.org/matthews/ Ohio Reading Road Trip: William Matthews]
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