American poet (born 1941)
William Pitt Root (born 1941 Austin, Minnesota) is an American poet.
He was raised in Fort Myers, Florida.
He studied at the University of Washington, and University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
He was Tucson Poet Laureate from 1997 to 2002, and taught at Hunter College.
He was a US/UK Exchange Artist, Rockefeller Foundation fellow, Guggenheim Fellow, Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, and an NEA fellow.
His work appeared in "Asheville Poetry Review, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Harpers, The Nation, Commonweal, The American Poetry Review, [Email] and "Poetry". He is poetry editor of "Cutthroat Magazine".
He is married to poet Pamela Uschuk; they live near Durango, Colorado and Tucson Arizona
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