William Matthews (1942 - 1997)

William Matthews, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on November 11, 1942, was educated at Yale University and the University of North Carolina. He was a professor of English and director of the writing program at the City University of New York.

Bill Matthews published his first book of poetry in 1970, Ruining the New Road: Poems. Nine others followed during his lifetime, including A Happy Childhood (1984), Selected Poems and Translations, 1969–91 (1992), and Time & Money, New Poems, which received the 1996 National Book Critics Circle award for poetry. He won the Modern Poetry Association's 1997 Ruth Lilly Award. He was a former chairman of the literature panel of the National Endowment for the Arts and a former president of the Poetry Society of America. After All was published posthumously.

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Page Views	Poem	Comments
1239	Job Interview
925	A Poetry Reading At West Point
903	Misgivings	1 Comment
704	The Blues
658	Homer's Seeing-Eye Dog
630	Poem (The lump of coal my parents teased)
619	No Return
611	Mingus At The Showplace
573	Dire Cure
377	On The Porch At The Frost Place, Franconia, N. H.	1 Comment