Baron Wormser (February 4, 1948 – October 7, 2025) was an American poet from Baltimore, Maryland.
Early life and career Baron Wormser was born in Baltimore on February 4, 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.Bio, baronwormser.com. Retrieved 2016-05-15. In 2000, he was a writer in residence at the University of South Dakota. From 2002, he taught in the Stonecoast MFA program at the University of Maine-Farmington, and from 2009, Fairfield University.
He founded the Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching at The Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire and was later director of educational outreach at the Frost Place.
Garrison Keillor has read Wormser's poems on The Writer's Almanac.
Personal life and death Wormser lived in Cabot and spent his final years in Montpelier, Vermont, with his wife, Janet. He died there on October 7, 2025, at the age of 77.
Awards Frederick Bock Prize from Poetry Kathryn A. Morton Prize Bread Loaf fellowship National Endowment for the Arts fellowship 1998 Guggenheim Fellowship
Works Poetry "The History Hotel," CavanKerry Press, 2023 "Unidentified Sighing Objects", CavanKerry Press, 2015 Impenitent Notes, CavanKerry Press, 2010 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, 1983Books, baronwormser.com. Retrieved 2016-05-15.
Prose Some Months in 1968, a novel, Woodhall Press, 2022 Songs from a Voice: Being the Recollections, Stanzas, and Observations of Abe Runyan, Song Writer and Performer, Woodhall Press, 2019 Legends of the Slow Explosion: Eleven Modern Lives, Tupelo Press, 2018 Tom o'Vietnam: A Novel, New Rivers Press, 2017 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
External links Author's website Poets.org bio
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