William Pitt Root

William Pitt Root (born 1941 Austin, Minnesota) is an American poet.¹ He was raised in Fort Myers, Florida, and went on to study at the University of Washington, and University of North Carolina at Greensboro.²³

Root was Tucson Poet Laureate from 1997 to 2002, and taught at Hunter College.⁴ He was also a US/UK Exchange Artist, Rockefeller Foundation fellow, Guggenheim Fellow,⁵ Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University, and an NEA fellow.⁶

His work appeared in Asheville Poetry Review,⁷ The Atlantic,⁸ The New Yorker,⁹ Harpers,¹⁰ The Nation, Commonweal, The American Poetry Review, Tri@uarterly, and Poetry. He is poetry editor of Cutthroat Magazine.¹¹

He is married to poet Pamela Uschuk; they live near Durango, Colorado and Tucson, Arizona.

• "Song of the Piper", Poetry Foundation
• "Temperance Poems", Poetry Foundation
• "Strange Angels: New Poems" Wins Press, 2013, ISBN 978-1-60940-319-5
• "Sublime Blue: Selected Early Odes of Pablo Neruda" Wings Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0-916727-87-1
• White Boots: New and Selected Poems of the West Carolina Wren Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-932112-51-4
• Trace Elements from a Recurring Kingdom: The First Five Books of WPR Confluence Press, 1994, ISBN 978-1-881090-12-0
• Faultdancing, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1986, ISBN 978-0-8229-3530-8
• Invisible Guests (1983)
• Reasons for Going It on Foot Atheneum, 1981, ISBN 978-0-689-11164-8
• In the World's Common Grasses Moving Parts Press, 1981
• Coot and Other Characters Confluence Press, 1977, ISBN 978-0-917652-03-5
• Fireclock Four Zoas Night House, 1981, ISBN 978-0-939622-21-4
• Striking the Dark Air for Music Atheneum, 1973, ISBN 978-0-689-10558-6
• The Storm and Other Poems Atheneum, 1969; reprint Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-88748-444-5