Baron Wormser

Baron Wormser (born 1948, in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American poet.

Biography
Baron Wormser was born in Baltimore on February 15, 1948. He earned his BA from Johns Hopkins University, and later completed graduate studies at the University of California-Irvine and University of Maine. Wormser served as librarian for 25 years in Madison, Maine.

Wormser served as Poet Laureate of Maine from 2000 to 2006. In 2000, he was a writer in residence at the University of South Dakota. Since 2002, he has taught in the Stonecoast MFA program at the University of Maine-Farmington, and since 2009, Fairfield University.

He founded the Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching at The Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire and is currently director of educational outreach at the Frost Place.

Garrison Keillor has read Wormser's poems on The Writer's Almanac.

Personal
Wormser has lived in Cabot and currently lives in Montpelier, Vermont with his wife, Janet.

Awards

 * Frederick Bock Prize from Poetry
 * Kathryn A. Morton Prize
 * Bread Loaf fellowship
 * National Endowment for the Arts fellowship
 * 1998 Guggenheim Fellowship

Works

 * Songs From a Voice: Being the Recollections, Stanzas, and Observations of Abe Runyan, Song Writer and Performer, Woodhall Press, 2021
 * Impenitent Notes, CavanKerry Press, 2011
 * Scattered Chapters: New and Selected Poems, Sarabande Books, 2008
 * Carthage Illuminated Sea Press, 2005
 * Subject Matter Sarabande Books, 2004
 * Mulroney and Others Sarabande Books, 2000
 * When Sarabande Books, 1997
 * Atoms, Soul Music and Other Poems Paris Review Editions, 1989
 * Good Trembling, Houghton Mifflin, 1985
 * The White Words Houghton Mifflin, 1983

Prose

 * Teach Us That Peace, Piscataqua Press, 2013
 * The Poetry Life: Ten Stories CavanKerry Press, 2008
 * The Road Washes Out in Spring: A Poet's Memoir of Living Off the Grid UPNE, 2006
 * A Surge of Language: Teaching Poetry Day by Day, co-author David Cappella, Heinemann, 2004
 * Teaching the Art of Poetry: The Moves, co-author David Cappella, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000