Roger Weingarten

Roger Weingarten is the author of 11 poetry collections, including Ethan Benjamin Boldt (Knopf), Ghost wrestling (Godine), and The Four Gentlemen and Their Footman (Longleaf, 2015). Co-editor of 8 poetry and prose anthologies, he's also taught and read at conferences, poetry festivals, and universities internationally. He was a Founder of the MFA in Writing and Postgraduate Writers' Conference at Vermont College, where he taught as a Senior Professor from 1981-2008. His awards include a...See more

Roger Weingarten is the author of 11 poetry collections, including Ethan Benjamin Boldt (Knopf), Ghost wrestling (Godine), and The Four Gentlemen and Their Footman (Longleaf, 2015). Co-editor of 8 poetry and prose anthologies, he's also taught and read at conferences, poetry festivals, and universities internationally. He was a Founder of the MFA in Writing and Postgraduate Writers' Conference at Vermont College, where he taught as a Senior Professor from 1981-2008. His awards include a Pushcart Prize, 3 Vermont Council on the Arts Grants, a Louisville Review Poetry Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, an Ingram Merrill Award in Literature. His poems, stories, essays have appeared in magazines and journals, including The New Yorker, Poetry, American Poetry Review, The New Republic, Poetry East, The Stonewall Book of Short Fictions, Paris Review, Nine Mile, and Numero Cinq. See less