Name Theodore Weiss | Role Poet | |
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Died April 15, 2003, Princeton, New Jersey, United States Education Columbia University (1940), Muhlenberg College (1938) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada Nominations National Book Award for Poetry Books A sum of destructions, The always present present, Selected Poems, The breath of clowns and kings, A slow fuse | ||
Theodore Russell Weiss (16 December 1916 Reading, Pennsylvania — 15 April 2003 Princeton, New Jersey) was an American poet, and literary magazine editor.
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Life
He graduated from Muhlenberg College in 1938 and Columbia University in 1940. He was an instructor at the University of Maryland, College Park, the University of North Carolina, Yale University, and Bard College. He taught at Princeton University, until retirement in 1987.
He edited (with his wife, Renee Karol Weiss) Quarterly Review of Literature, which published William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, and Ezra Pound.
In 1987, he was the subject of a documentary, Living Poetry: A Year in the Life of a Poem, made by Harvey Edwards.
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