Wyatt Prunty is an American poet

Poet

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 and author

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 associated with the New Formalism

New Formalism

New Formalism is a late-20th and early 21st century movement in American poetry that has promoted a return to metrical and rhymed verse.-Origins and intentions:...

 movement. He is the author of eight collections of poetry and two books of criticism and is a frequent reviewer and essayist for poetry and literary journals. He has taught at Louisiana State University

Louisiana State University

Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, most often referred to as Louisiana State University, or LSU, is a public coeducational university located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The University was founded in 1853 in what is now known as Pineville, Louisiana, under the name...

, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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, Washington and Lee University, Johns Hopkins University, and since 1989, Sewanee: University of the South, where he is the Ogden D. Carlton Chair of English and founding director of the Sewanee Writers' Conference. His recent work has appeared in Atlantic Monthly, Kenyon Review, The Hopkins Review

The Hopkins Review

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, New Republic, Poetry, Southwest Review, Yale Review, and has been featured on Public Television and National Public Radio. Prunty currently resides in Sewanee, Tennessee

Sewanee, Tennessee

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Poetry collections

• Domestic of the Outer Banks, Inland Boat/Porch, 1980
• The Times Between, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982, ISBN 9780801824074
• Balance as Belief, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989, ISBN 9780801838941
• Since the Noon Mail Stopped Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997, ISBN 9780801856464
• The Lover's Guide to Trapping, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009, ISBN 9780801892790

Books

• Sewanee Writers on Writing, Louisiana State University Press, 2000, ISBN 9780807126318