James Tate was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1943. His collection
of short fiction, Dreams of a Robot Dancing Bee was
published by Verse Press in 2002. He is the author of numerous books of
poetry, including Return to the City of White Donkeys (Harper Collins,
2004); Memoir of the Hawk (Ecco Press, 2001); Shroud of the Gnome (1997);
and Worshipful Company of Fletchers (1994), which won the National
Book Award. His Selected Poems (1991) won the Pulitzer Prize and the
William Carlos Williams Award. His honors include a National Institute
of Arts and Letters Award for Poetry, the Wallace Stevens Award, and fellowships
from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
He teaches at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and is currently
a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets.
Photo by Stephen Long.
Reviews of books by James Tate
Dreams of a Robot Dancing Bee
Interviews
- Cross Connect,
with Mike Magee
- Poets & Writers,
with Nick Twemlow
- James Tate’s audio archive page on PennSound
- James Tate reading at the Kelly Writers House
- Reading at the Key West Literary Seminar
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