Professor Reed Whittemore

Reed Whittemore (1919-2012), prolific poet and essayist, teacher, Poetry Consultant to the Library of Congress (now U.S. Poet Laureate), began his literary life in the late 1930s when he and Yale roommate James Angleton founded Furioso whose pages carried work by Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, e. e. cummings, among others. His storied career included four wartime years in North Africa and Europe, as well as a second run of Furioso , which Victor Navasky called the ne plus ultra of little mags....See more

Reed Whittemore (1919-2012), prolific poet and essayist, teacher, Poetry Consultant to the Library of Congress (now U.S. Poet Laureate), began his literary life in the late 1930s when he and Yale roommate James Angleton founded Furioso whose pages carried work by Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, e. e. cummings, among others. His storied career included four wartime years in North Africa and Europe, as well as a second run of Furioso , which Victor Navasky called the ne plus ultra of little mags. While teaching at Carleton College, Whittemore founded The Carleton Miscellany , then came to Washington in 1966. He went on to serve as literary editor of The New Republic and teach at the University of Maryland, all the while publishing the National Book Award nominated poetry and essays, a biography of Willliam Carlos Williams, and--after his retirement from Maryland--several books on, even restarting Delos , a journal of world literature and translation. See less