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American poet
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Will Schutt
Born1981
New York City
Occupationpoet, translator
NationalityAmerican
Alma materOberlin College,
Hollins University
GenrePoetry
Notable awardsYale Series of Younger Poets, Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship

Will Schutt (born 1981 New York City) is the author of Westerly (Yale University Press, 2013), selected by Carl Phillips as the winner of the 2012 Yale Series of Younger Poets award.

Life

He is a graduate of Oberlin College and Hollins University, where he received his MFA. He is also the recipient of fellowships from the James Merrill House, the Stadler Center for Poetry, the Reginald S. Tickner Writing Fellowship, the Jeannette Haien Ballard Prize and the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Fellowship. He has been awarded fellowships to attend the Sewanee Writers' Conference and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.

For his translations of Italian poet Edoardo Sanguineti he received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and PEN/America, and subsequently published My Life, I Lapped It Up: Selected Poems of Edoardo Sanguineti.

In 2023, Princeton University Press published his translations of another Italian poet, Fabio Pusterla, in a collection called Brief Homage to Pluto and Other Poems. For his translations of Pusterla he received the Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Award and the Joseph Tusiani Italian Translation prize.

His poems and translations have appeared in Agni, Blackbird, FIELD, Narrative, The New Republic, The Southern Review, Kenyon Review Online and elsewhere.

He is the son of American novelist Christine Schutt.

He lives in Rome and teaches at John Cabot University

Works

References

  1. "Will Schutt wins the Yale Younger Poets Prize 2012". Yale University Press London. 8 March 2012. Retrieved 15 March 2013.
  2. "Stadler Fellowships". Bucknell University. Retrieved 15 March 2013.
  3. "AGNI Online: Author Will Schutt". Retrieved 17 April 2016.
  4. ""After Music" by Will Schutt - Blackbird v11n1 - #poetry". Retrieved 17 April 2016.
  5. "Will Schutt". Narrative Magazine. 22 March 2011. Retrieved 17 April 2016.
  6. https://www.johncabot.edu/faculty/william-schutt. Retrieved 23 January 2025. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

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