William Corbett (poet)
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William Corbett (October 11, 1942 – August 10, 2018)educator, and publisher.
Corbett's work and public readings acknowledge the influence on him of jazz, modernist and imagist poetry (especially
Li Po), and French poetry of the mid-19th to early 20th centuries (especially Guillaume Apollinaire
).
Life and work
Corbett served as a teacher in the Expository Writing program at Harvard University and as writer-in-residence in the Program of Writing and Humanistic Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he taught classes focusing on the craft of the personal essay and the creation of poetry. He edited for the small publisher Pressed Wafer, which specializes in poetry broadsides, chapbooks and books.[2]
Corbett edited the letters of
Boston Phoenix, for which he contributed book reviews. He also taught at New York University.[3]
He was married and had two daughters.
Selected publications
- Columbus Square Journal (Angel Hair Books, 1976) ISBN 0-935992-25-1
- Runaway Pond (Applewood Books, 1982) ISBN 0-918222-26-5
- Collected Poems (ISBN 0-915032-45-7
- On Blue Note (Zoland Books, 1989) ISBN 0-944072-06-2
- Don't Think: Look (Zoland Books, 1991)
- Literary New England: A History and Guide (Faber & Faber, 1993)
- Philip Guston's Late Work: A Memoir (Zoland Books, 1994)
- New & Selected Poems (Zoland Books, 1995)
- Furthering My Education (Zoland Books, 1997) ISBN 0-944072-74-7
- New York Literary Lights (Graywolf Press, 1998) ISBN 1-55597-272-1(pbk.)
- Boston Vermont (Zoland Books, 1999)
- John Raimondi (Hudson Hills Press, 1999) ISBN 1-55595-179-1
- editor (with ISBN 1-887123-34-2
- All Prose: Selected Essays and Reviews (Zoland Books, 2001) ISBN 1-58195-102-7
- editor: Just The Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler 1951-1991 (Turtle Point Press, 2004) ISBN 1-885586-30-2
- editor: The Letters of James Schuyler to ISBN 978-1885586-48-3
- Opening Day (Hanging Loose Press, 2008) ISBN 978-1-931236-86-7
- Albert York (Pressed Wafer, 2010) ISBN 978-0-9824100-5-9
- The Whalen Poem (Hanging Loose Press, 2011) ISBN 978-1-934909-13-3 [4]
- Elegies for ISBN 978-0-9794342-3-5
References
- ^ "Library of Congress Authorities". LCNAF Cataloging in Publication data - LC Control Number: n 89103068. LOC. Retrieved June 7, 2011.
- ^ http://pressedwafer.com/about/
- ^ "William Corbett". NYU Gallatin. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
- ^ "Book Distributor's Page for "The Whalen Poem". Small Press Distribution. Retrieved June 7, 2011.
External links
- Author page at Ploughshares includes links to on-line reviews and poems by Corbett, and reviews of his work from past issues of Ploughshares going back to the Fall of 1971
- Pair of Jacks on-line poem by Corbett at Shampoo, Issue 24
- THE ROMANCE OF LIFE AND ART an Interview with William Corbett published on-line in Rain Taxi (2005)
- On editing James Schuyler Corbett in conversation with Pam Brown, on-line at Jacket Magazine
- Demon daze: Hart Crane complete on-line review by Corbett of Hart Crane: Complete Poems & Selected Letters ( The Library of America)
- Corbett Audio-files @PennSound recordings of Corbett reading at Penn School of Design on February 3, 2005
- A letter from William Corbett This letter discusses Charles Olson & was first published in Minutes of the Charles Olson Society #26 (June 1998)
- William Corbett at the Boston Phoenix Some of Corbett's contributions to the Boston Phoenix.
- In Conversation: Wynn Kramarsky with William Corbett transcript of an interview before an audience at the CUE Art Foundation
- Inspiration key for Boston-based poet Bill Corbett this article first appeared on March 22, 2010
- Frank Stella 1958 Corbett writes about the Frank Stella exhibition titled Frank Stella 1958 at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts February 4–May 7, 2006
- William Corbett page and poem at the Academy of American Poets
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