A. R. Ammons, Ph.D., is professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of thirteen books of poetry, including The Naked Summer (Wesleyan), winner of the Walt Whitman Award (USC); The Craft of Poetry (Harvard); and Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (Black Sparrow Press); and five books on poetry and poetics, including The Craft of Poetry (Harvard) and The Poetics of Literary Silence (Indiana)
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His latest book is Conversations with Blake (University Press of Mississippi). He has published work in the American Poetry Review, the Chicago Review, the Harvard Review, Indiana Review, New York Times Book Review, and Tin House; has received fellowships from National Endowment for the Arts, Guggenheim Foundation, and Rockefeller Foundation; and an honorary doctorate from the University of Houston.