Discipline: Literature – poetry

William Wadsworth

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1997

William Wadsworth has published work in The New Republic, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, Tin House, Salmagundi, and the Boston Review, among other magazines, as well as in several anthologies, including The Best American Erotic Poems, edited by David Lehman, and the Library of America Anthology of American Religious Poems, edited by Harold Bloom. His collection of poems, The Physicist on a Cold Night Explains, was published by Vaso Roto Press in 2010. From 1989 to 2001, Wadsworth served as executive director of the Academy of American Poets, where he oversaw the launch of the seminal website poets.org and the inauguration of April as National Poetry Month, among other national arts initiatives. He currently teaches in the Columbia University M.F.A. Writing Program, where he has served as Director of Academic Administration since 2008.

Studios

Barnard

William Wadsworth worked in the Barnard studio.

Originally built near MacDowell's Union Street entrance, the Barnard Studio — which was funded by Barnard College music students — was re-located to its current site in 1910. When the small structure was moved, its size was doubled with the addition of a second room. This remodeling, financed by Mrs. Thomas E. Emery of Cincinnati…

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