Wesley McNair (born 1941) is an American poet, writer, editor, and professor. He has authored 10 volumes of poetry, most recently, Lovers of the Lost: New & Selected Poems (Godine, 2010), The Lost Child: Ozark Poems (Godine, 2014), The Unfastening (Godine, 2017), and Dwellers in the House of the Lord (Godine, 2020). He has also written three books of prose, including a memoir, The Words I Chose: A Memoir of Family and Poetry (Carnegie Mellon "Poets in Prose" Series, 2013). In addition, he has edited several anthologies of Maine writing, and served as a guest editor in poetry for the 2010 Pushcart Prize Annual.
A New Hampshire native who has lived for many years in Mercer, Maine, McNair received his undergraduate degree from Keene State College and has earned two degrees from Middlebury College, an MA in English, and an M.Litt. in American literature. He has also studied American literature, art, and history at Dartmouth College, sponsored by a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. As of 2018, McNair is professor emeritus and writer in residence at the University of Maine at Farmington.[1]
McNair is professor emeritus and writer in residence at the University of Maine at Farmington. According to United States Artists, WesleyMcNair's poetry...
Nathaniel WesleyMcNair (1917–1943), from Chilliwack. He was serving with 460 (RAAF) Squadron when he was killed in action November 26, 1943, age 26. McNair perished...
the bench, affixing a dress sash to McNair; a third girl (Cynthia Wesley) is sat upon the bench alongside McNair and Collins with a Bible in her lap....
2019. "Michael Longley". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 29 June 2019. Wesley, McNair (2003). "Michael Longley's Journey to the Real World in The Weather...
current poet laureate of Maine is Julia Bouwsna. Predecessors include WesleyMcNair, Baron Wormser, and Betsy Sholl. The current Poet Laureate of Maryland...
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Literary Hall of Fame". Maine Literature. Retrieved 29 March 2010. WesleyMcNair, ed. (2006). The Maine Poets: An Anthology of Verse. Down East. ISBN 0-89272-708-X...
young African-American girls (Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley, Addie Mae Collins, and Denise McNair) and injured more than 20 other people. Bobby Frank Cherry...
and Thomas Mann. In 2006, the college acquired the personal papers of WesleyMcNair, which extends over 200 linear feet, and includes his writings from...
University Press. In 2004, A Place on Water, which Bill wrote with poet WesleyMcNair and essayist Robert Kimber was published by Tilbury House, a craft publisher...
Ploughshares Gigi Marks "The Swim" Poetry William Matthews "Misgivings" Poetry WesleyMcNair "The Characters of Dirty Jokes" Mid-American Review Czesław Miłosz "A...
Archived from the original on September 16, 2012. Retrieved August 27, 2012. McNaugh, Tom (March 8, 2001). "2001 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award and the L...
and fiction writer and essayist Victor LaValle, poet Heather McHugh, poet WesleyMcNair, novelist and poet Susan Power, comics artist and novelist Joe...
11. Retrieved August 5, 2019. McNair, Wesley. "My Life as a Poet – Childhood". Retrieved August 4, 2019. McNair, Wesley (1999). "Placing Myself". The...
Asia Palas, Inc.", (see also Collected Poems 1964), Dedalus Press Thomas McCarthy, Seven Winters in Paris, Anvil Press, London, Ireland John Montague...
title in 1995. McNair's father Frederick V. McNair III, grandfather Frederick V. McNair Jr., and great-grandfather Frederick V. McNair Sr., all graduated...
"Kidnapped" The New Yorker James McCorkle "Showing Us the Fields" Boulevard Robert McDowell "The Fifties" The Hudson Review WesleyMcNair "The Abandonment" The Atlantic...
America's writing programs. Anchor Press/Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-385-23952-3. WesleyMcNair, ed. (2005). "A Short Wedding Story". Contemporary Maine fiction: an...
ISBN 978-0-14-007407-9. Sailing. Viking. 1988. ISBN 978-0-670-81229-5. WesleyMcNair, ed. (2005). "The Death of the Dog and Other Rescues". Contemporary...
Chinese-Canadian Poetry, Vancouver, British Columbia: Arsenal Pulp Press Rukmini Bhaya Nair, The Ayodhya Cantos ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: Penguin C. P. Surendran...
of four African-American girls (Addie Mae Collins, Carol Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Rosamond Robertson) in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing...
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