Wyatt Prunty

Wyatt Prunty in 2005. Photo by Kimberley Gilligan. Courtesy National Endowment for the Arts & Wikipedia.

Wyatt Prunty (born May 15, 1947) is an American poet and academic, associated with the New Formalism movement.

Life

Prunty was born in Humboldt, Tennessee.

He is the author of 8 collections of poetry and 2 books of criticism, and is a frequent reviewer and essayist for poetry and literary journals. He has taught at Louisiana State University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Washington and Lee University, Johns Hopkins University. Since 1989 he has been at Sewanee: University of the South, where he is the Ogden D. Carlton chair of English. He is founding director of the Sewanee Writers' Conference.

His recent work has appeared in Atlantic Monthly, Kenyon Review, Hopkins Review, New Republic, Poetry, Southwest Review, and Yale Review, and has been featured on Public Television and National Public Radio.

Prunty resides in Sewanee, Tennessee.

Recognition

• 2001 Guggenheim Fellowship

Publications

Poetry

• Domestic of the Outer Banks (chapbook). Tempe, AZ: Inland Boat/Porch, 1980.
• To My Father. Winston-Salem, NC: Palaemon Press, 1982.
• The Times Between. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982.
• What Women Know, What Men Believe. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986.
• Balance as Belief. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989.
• The Run of the House. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.
• Since the Noon Mail Stopped. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
• Unarmed and Dangerous: New and selected poems. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
• The Lover's Guide to Trapping. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
• Couldn't Prove, Had to Promise. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015.

Non-fiction

• Fallen from the Symboled World: Precedents for the New Formalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Edited

• John Bricuth, Just Let Me Say This about That: A narrative poem (edited with Peter Mayer). Sewanee Writers' Series, 1998.
• Sewanee Writers on Writing. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press (Southern Literary Series), 2000.

Wyatt Prunty reading "The Wild Horses"

Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.

See also

• List of U.S. poets

External links

• Wyatt Prunty profile & 3 poems at the Academy of American Poets
• Wyatt Prunty b. 1947 at the Poetry Foundation
• Wyatt Prunty at PoemHunter (2 poems)
• Wyatt Prunty in Blackbird

Books

• Preview of Fallen from the Symboled World

Audio / video

• Wyatt Prunty:Selected Poems on NPR.
• Wyatt Prunty at YouTube

Books

• Wyatt Prunty at Amazon.com

About

• Wyatt Prunty (b. 1947) in the New Georgia Encyclopedia
• The Poetry of Wyatt Prunty Official website.