Baron Wormser
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| Born | February 4, 1948 Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
| Died | October 7, 2025 (aged 77) Montpelier, Vermont, U.S. |
| Occupation | Poet, essayist, novelist, critic, educator |
| Education | Johns Hopkins University |
| Notable works | Impenitent Notes, Carthage |
| Notable awards | Frederick Bock Prize from Poetry, Kathryn A. Morton Prize, Bread Loaf fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship |
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Baron Wormser (February 4, 1948 – October 7, 2025) was an American poet from Baltimore, Maryland.[1]
Early life and career
[edit | edit source]Baron Wormser was born in Baltimore on February 4, 1948. He earned his BA from Johns Hopkins University, and later completed graduate studies at the University of California-Irvine and University of Maine.[2] Wormser served as librarian for 25 years in Madison, Maine.[2]
Wormser served as Poet Laureate of Maine from 2000 to 2006.[3][4][5][6] In 2000, he was a writer in residence at the University of South Dakota. From 2002, he taught in the Stonecoast MFA program at the University of Maine-Farmington,[2] and from 2009, Fairfield University.[5][7]
He founded the Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching at The Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire[8] and was later director of educational outreach at the Frost Place.[2]
Garrison Keillor has read Wormser's poems on The Writer's Almanac.[9]
Personal life and death
[edit | edit source]Wormser lived in Cabot[10] and spent his final years in Montpelier, Vermont, with his wife, Janet.[11] He died there on October 7, 2025, at the age of 77.[12]
Awards
[edit | edit source]- Frederick Bock Prize from Poetry
- Kathryn A. Morton Prize
- Bread Loaf fellowship
- National Endowment for the Arts fellowship
- 1998 Guggenheim Fellowship[13]
Works
[edit | edit source]Poetry
[edit | edit source]- "The History Hotel," CavanKerry Press, 2023
- "Unidentified Sighing Objects", CavanKerry Press, 2015
- Impenitent Notes, CavanKerry Press, 2010
- Scattered Chapters: New and Selected Poems, Sarabande Books, 2008
- Carthage Illuminated Sea Press, 2005
- Subject Matter Sarabande Books, 2004
- Mulroney and Others Sarabande Books, 2000
- When Sarabande Books, 1997
- Atoms, Soul Music and Other Poems Paris Review Editions, 1989
- Good Trembling, Houghton Mifflin, 1985
- The White Words Houghton Mifflin, 1983[14]
Prose
[edit | edit source]- Some Months in 1968, a novel, Woodhall Press, 2022
- Songs from a Voice: Being the Recollections, Stanzas, and Observations of Abe Runyan, Song Writer and Performer, Woodhall Press, 2019
- Legends of the Slow Explosion: Eleven Modern Lives, Tupelo Press, 2018
- Tom o'Vietnam: A Novel, New Rivers Press, 2017
- Teach Us That Peace, Piscataqua Press, 2013
- The Poetry Life: Ten Stories CavanKerry Press, 2008
- The Road Washes Out in Spring: A Poet's Memoir of Living Off the Grid, UPNE, 2006
- A Surge of Language: Teaching Poetry Day by Day, co-author David Cappella, Heinemann, 2004
- Teaching the Art of Poetry: The Moves, co-author David Cappella, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000[14]
External links
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