Frank Bidart

Frank Bidart
fbidart@wellesley.edu
(781) 283-2710
Faculty emeritus
B.A., University of California (Riverside); A.M., Harvard University

Frank L. Bidart

Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus in the Humanities and Professor Emeritus of English

An award-winning poet, Bidart won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize, 2018 National Book Award and was previously a finalist for both awards.


I've taught at Wellesley for over 45 years. I write poetry, and have published several volumes; I teach poetry workshops and 20th century poetry, both "modern" and contemporary; I edited a one-volume Collected Poems of Robert Lowell for his publisher, Farrar Straus & Giroux.

My most recent volume, Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016, won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for Poetry. 

Other publications include: Desire (1997), Music Like Dirt (2002), Watching the Spring Festival (2008), Metaphysical Dog (2013)

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