Author | Baron Wormser

Baron Wormser is the author of six books of poetry and one chapbook. He is the co-author of two books about teaching poetry. He teaches in the Stonecoast MFA program, directs the Frost Place Seminar and the Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. He served as poet laureate of Maine from 2000 to 2005.

Books he has authored are as follows: The White Words (Houghton Mifflin, 1983); Good Trembling (Houghton Mifflin, 1985); Atoms, Soul Music and Other Poems (Paris Review Editions, 1989); When (Sarabande Books, 1997); Mulroney & Others (Sarabande Books, 2000); Subject Matter (Sarabande Books, 2004). His chapbook, Carthage, about a character who is a president of the United States was published by The Illuminated Sea Press in 2005. His memoir, The Road Washes Out in Spring, is forthcoming from The University Press of New England in the fall of 2006.

Books he has co-authored are as follows: Teaching the Art of Poetry: the Moves by Baron Wormser and David Cappella (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000) and A Surge of Language: Teaching Poetry Day by Dayby Baron Wormser and David Cappella (Heinemann, 2004).