Max Wickert

	This Nazareth College (1962–1965) University at Buffalo (since 1966)

Max Wickert (born May 26, 1938,

Upon arrival in Buffalo, Max Wickert formed close friendships with a number of writers who were then students or fellow teachers, including Dan Murray, Shreela Ray, Robert Hass and

For the English department, he has served as director of undergraduate studies and as chair of the Charles D. Abbott Poetry Readings Committee. He also helped to establish and frequently judged the university's annual Academy of American Poets Student Poetry Prize Competition. With Dan Murray and Doug Eichhorn, he founded the Outriders Poetry Project in 1968 and has been its director ever since. (Outriders, originally a sponsor of poetry readings in Buffalo bistros, became a small press in 2009.)^[3]

Between 1968 and 1972, he published verse translations from the Austrian expressionist Georg Trakl, and from various German poets. In collaboration with Hubert Kulterer, he also translated 1001 Ways to Live Without Working, by the American Beat poet Tuli Kupferberg, into German.

During the early 1970s, he wrote essays on early opera and briefly worked as a radio station host for WBFO's "The World of Opera." His short story, The Scythe of Saturn was a prize-winner in the 1983 Stand Magazine (Newcastle upon Tyne) Fiction Competition.^{[citation needed]} Over the years, over 100 of Max Wickert’s poems and translation have appeared in journals, including

• All the Weight of the Still Midnight[11] (Buffalo, NY: Outriders Poetry Project, 1972; poems)
• Pat Sonnets^[11] (Sound Beach, NY: Street Press, 2000; poems)
• The Liberation of Jerusalem ([[^[12]]]: Oxford World’s Classics, 2008; verse translation of Torquato Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata)
• (with Hubert Kulterer), 1001 Wege ohne Arbeit zu leben (Vienna [Austria]: Eröffnungen, 1972) and Wenzendorf [Germany]: Stadtlichter Presse,^[13] 2009, 2nd. ed. 2015; translation of Tuli Kupferberg’s 1001 Ways to Live Without Working
• No Cartoons (Buffalo, NY: Outriders Poetry Project, 2011; poems)
• Love Poems for Lucrezia Bendidio (New York, NY: Italica Press, 2011; edition and verse translation from Torquato Tasso's Rime d'Amore)
• Rinaldo by Torquato Tasso (New York, NY: Italica Press, 2017; A New English Verse Translation with Facing Italian Text, Critical Introduction and Notes)

Selected publications

Articles

• "Structure and Ceremony in
  Epithalamion
  '", ELH: A Journal of English Literary History, XXXV:2 (June, 1968), 135-5.
• "
  Books Abroad
  , XLIII:2 (Spring, 1969), 211-12.
• "Librettos and Academies: Some Speculations and an Example", Opera Journal, VII:4 (1974), 6-16.
• "Bellini’s Orpheus", Opera Journal, IX:4 (1976), 11-18.
• "Orpheus Dismembered: Operatic Myth Goes Underground", Salmagundi (magazine), XXVIII/XXXIX (Summer/Fall, 1977), 118-136.
• "Che Farò Senza Euridyce: Myth and Meaning in Early Opera", Opera Journal, XI: 1 (1978), 18-35.

Verse and fiction (selection)

• "Dawn Scene", Choice: A Magazine of Poetry and Photography, #6 (1970), p. 46.
• "Three Poems", Descant, XIV (Winter, 1970), pp.13–15.
• "Warning", "For Esther", "He is the Mother" and "The Months", Michigan Quarterly Review, X:3 (Summer, 1971), pp. 195–99.
• "Nocturne" and "Aubade", Poetry (magazine), CXIX:4 (January, 1972), pp. 218–19.
• "Two Polemics of Departure", Choice: A Magazine of Poetry and Photography, #7/8 (1972), pp. 310–11.
• "Is This Typical?" Street, II:2 (1976), p. 58.
• "Born Lucky",
  American Poetry Review
  VIIL:4 (July/August, 1978), p. 22.
• "Goodbye" and "More Slowly", Choice: A Magazine of Poetry and Photography, #10 (1978), pp. 256–7.
• from the "Pat Sonnets", Poetry (magazine), LXXXVII:1 (October, 1980), pp. 18–21.
• "Dawn Song", Pequod (Winter, 1980), p. 8.
• "A Little Satori Take", Berkeley Poetry Review, #13 (Spring, 1980), p. 22.
• "Parallax, Twenty-two-hundred Hours" and "Letters to Your Grandfather", Pacific Poetry and Fiction Review, VIII:2 (Fall, 1980), pp. 43, 58.
• "Slugabed", Xanadu, #8 (1982), p. 34.
• "Two Poems", Pembroke Magazine, #14 (1983), pp. 42–43.
• from the "Pat Sonnets", Poetry (magazine), CXL:1 (April,1982), pp. 8–11.
• "Two Poems", Shenandoah (magazine), XXXIII:2 (Winter, 1983), pp. 53–54.
• "Pastoral", The Lyric, LXIII:1 (Winter, 1983), p. 14.
• "Three Sonnets from The Unholy Weeks", Shenandoah (magazine), XXXV:1 (1983-4), pp. 52–53.
• "Parsifal",
  Sewanee Review
  , XCII:4 (Fall,1984), pp. 541–42.
• "The Scythe of Saturn" (fiction) in: Michael Blackburn, Jon Silkin and Lorna Tracy (ed.), Stand One (London: Victor Gollancz, 1984), pp. 93–115.

Fellowships and awards

• Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1957–58
• NYS Research Foundation Grant-in-Aid, 1968 (for Trakl translations)
• Co-Winner, New Poets Prize, Chowan University, 1980
• Co-Winner, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY, Poets-on-Paintings Competition, 1982
• Co-Winner, Mason Sonnet Award, World Order of Narrative Poets, 1983
• Co-Winner, Burchfield Penney Art Center Poetry Competition, Buffalo, NY 1983
• Honorable Mention, Stand Short Story Competition, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, 1983
• NEH
  Summer Fellowship, Dartmouth Dante Institute, Summer 1986

References

http://outriderspoetryproject.com