Walter E. Butts is an American poet, and the Poet Laureate of New Hampshire. His most recent book is Sunday Evening at the Stardust Cafe (1st World Library), which was a finalist for the 2005 Philip Levine Prize in Poetry from the University of California, Fresno and won the Iowa Source Poetry Book Prize. He has also received a Pushcart Prize nomination.

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  • Walter E. Butts is an American poet, and the Poet Laureate of New Hampshire. His most recent book is Sunday Evening at the Stardust Cafe (1st World Library), which was a finalist for the 2005 Philip Levine Prize in Poetry from the University of California, Fresno and won the Iowa Source Poetry Book Prize. He has also received a Pushcart Prize nomination. His work has been published in such literary journals as The Atlanta Review, Poetry East, Cimarron Review, Mid-American Review, Slant, PoetryMotel, Poet Lore and Spillway and anthologized in Emerson of Harvard (2003), Tokens: Contemporary Poetry of the Subway (P&Q Press, New York), and The Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry (1997). He has also written reviews of other poets' works, including Tell Them We Were Here by David Kelly, a Rochester, New York area poet. Until the late-1970s, Butts lived in Rochester, New York, where he was one of several poets who organized featured readings and open mics in the area, most notably at The Cobbs Hill Grille, a popular local bar and restaurant. Over the next few years he lived in Albany, New York, New York City, Boston, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and currently lives in Manchester, New Hampshire. In April 2003, he was among the participants in the first gathering of state poets laureate hosted organized by New Hampshire’s poet laureate, Marie Harris. That same year, he also toured northern New Hampshire with South Dakota with poet David Allan Evans, giving readings and discussions at community centers and bookstores. Some of these were broadcast on regional National Public Radio and Public Broadcasting stations. Butts received his M.F.A. from Vermont College of Fine Arts n 1995, and he taught creative writing workshops at the University of New Hampshire in Manchester. Currently, he is an associate professor of English at the Hesser College campus in Manchester, and at the low residency Bachelor of Fine Arts program at Goddard College. He was cited in the 2002 edition of Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers. In addition to teaching, Butts also co-edited Walking to Windward: Poets of New England, Volume 3 and is the co-editor & publisher (with his wife S. Stephanie) of the literary magazine Crying Sky: Poetry & Conversation.
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  • Walter E. Butts is an American poet, and the Poet Laureate of New Hampshire. His most recent book is Sunday Evening at the Stardust Cafe (1st World Library), which was a finalist for the 2005 Philip Levine Prize in Poetry from the University of California, Fresno and won the Iowa Source Poetry Book Prize. He has also received a Pushcart Prize nomination.
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