Wesley McNair (born 1941) is an American poet, writer, and professor. He has authored eight collections of poetry, most recently, The Ghosts of You and Me. He has a new collection forthcoming, Lovers of the Lost: New and Selected Poems (David R. Godine, 2010). According to United States Artists, McNair "is a poet of place, focusing on the struggles of the 'economic misfits' of northern New England, often with humor and through the use of telling details.

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  • Wesley McNair (born 1941) is an American poet, writer, and professor. He has authored eight collections of poetry, most recently, The Ghosts of You and Me. He has a new collection forthcoming, Lovers of the Lost: New and Selected Poems (David R. Godine, 2010). According to United States Artists, McNair "is a poet of place, focusing on the struggles of the 'economic misfits' of northern New England, often with humor and through the use of telling details. " McNair’s honors include fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fulbright Program, and United States Artists. Among his other honors are the Robert Frost Prize, the Theodore Roethke Prize, the Jane Kenyon Award for Outstanding Book, and the Sarah Josepha Hale Medal. McNair’s poems have appeared widely in literary journals and magazines including AGNI, The Atlantic, The Gettysburg Review, Green Mountain Review, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Mid-American Review, The New Criterion, New England Review, Pleiades, Ploughshares, Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, Sewanee Review, Slate, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Witness, and Yankee Magazine. Featured on The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor and National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition, McNair's work has also appeared in the Pushcart Prize Annual, two editions of The Best American Poetry, and over fifty anthologies and textbooks. A New Hampshire native who has lived for many years in Mercer, Maine, McNair earned his M.A. from Middlebury College. He is currently professor emeritus and writer in residence at the University of Maine at Farmington.
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  • Wesley McNair (born 1941) is an American poet, writer, and professor. He has authored eight collections of poetry, most recently, The Ghosts of You and Me. He has a new collection forthcoming, Lovers of the Lost: New and Selected Poems (David R. Godine, 2010). According to United States Artists, McNair "is a poet of place, focusing on the struggles of the 'economic misfits' of northern New England, often with humor and through the use of telling details.
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