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William Trowbridge

William Trowbridge holds a B.A. in Philosophy and an M.A. in English from the University of Missouri-Columbia and a PH.D. in English from Vanderbilt University. He served as Poet Laureate of the State of Missouri from 2012-2016.

His poetry includes nine full collections: Call Me Fool, [Red Hen Press, fall 2022], Oldguy:Superhero—The Complete Collection, [Red Hen Press, 2019], Vanishing Point, [Red Hen Press, April, 2017], Put This On, Please [Red Hen Press, 2014], Ship of Fool [Red Hen Press, 2011], The Complete Book of Kong [Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2003], Flickers, O Paradise, and Enter Dark Stranger [Universiy of Arkansas Press, 2000, 1995, 1989]. He has also published four chapbooks: Oldguy: Superhero, a graphic chapbook in the form of a comic book, [Red Hen, 2016], The Packing House Cantata [Camber Press, 2006], The Four Seasons [Red Dragonfly Press, 2001], and The Book of Kong [Iowa State University Press, 1986].

His poems have appeared in more than 50 anthologies and textbooks, as well as in such periodicals as Poetry, The Gettysburg Review, Crazyhorse, The Georgia Review, Boulevard, The Southern Review, Columbia, Colorado Review, The Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, Epoch, and New Letters. He has given readings and workshops at schools, colleges, bookstores, and literary conferences throughout the United States. His awards include an Academy of American Poets Prize, a Pushcart Prize, a Breadloaf Writers' Conference scholarship, a Camber Press Poetry Chapbook Award, and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and The Anderson Center.

He is a Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at Northwest Missouri State University, where he was an editor of The Laurel Review/GreenTower Press from 1986 to 2004. Now living in Lee's Summit, Missouri, he teaches in the University of Nebraska Omaha MFA in Writing Program.

He is married to Sue, and they have three children: Jennifer, Sean, and Randy; and three grandchildren: Sarah, Will, and Alice.

His interests are reading, travel, motorcycling, wine tasting, fine dining, and trying to keep the damn rabbits out of the hibiscus.

On Brueghel’S The Tower Of Bable

William Trowbridge

Vanishing Point

William Trowbridge

Fool at High Noon

William Trowbridge

FOOL INVENTS THE PIANO, 1250 A.D.

William Trowbridge

Radiation Day

William Trowbridge

Archaeopteryx

William Trowbridge

We Real Old

William Trowbridge

Walking Back

William Trowbridge

Summer’s Almost Gone

William Trowbridge

Stark Weather

William Trowbridge

Sometimes on the Porch in Summer

William Trowbridge

Rental Tux

William Trowbridge

Please, Not That Again

William Trowbridge

Long Distance to My Old Coach

William Trowbridge

Living with Solar Keratosis

William Trowbridge

Kong Looks Back on His Tryout With the Bears

William Trowbridge

Battleground

William Trowbridge

Bacall

William Trowbridge

50th Reunion: Westide High

William Trowbridge

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