![]() ![]() from the University of Iowa's famed Writer's Workshop. I knew from the moment I started writing that I never wanted to be writing about my life." In college he read Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams and was "in heaven". Tate wrote his first poem a few months into college with no external motivation he observed that poetry "became a private place that I was hugely drawn to, where I could let my daydreams-and my pain-come in completely disguised. He planned on being a gas station attendant as his uncle had been, but finding that his friends to his surprise were going to college, he applied to Kansas State College of Pittsburg (now Pittsburg State University) in 1961. The eventual poet said he belonged to a gang in high school and had little interest in literature. Tate and his mother moved out after seven years when she remarried. ![]() ![]() His father, a pilot in World War II, had died in combat on April 11, 1944, before Tate was a year old. Tate was born in Kansas City, Missouri, where he lived with his mother and his grandparents in his grandparents' house. He was a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work earned him the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. James Vincent Tate (Decem– July 8, 2015) was an American poet. Poet, professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst ![]() Tate (left) at the Grolier Poetry Book Shop in 1965 with the owner, Gordon Cairnie ![]()
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