PAUL ZIMMER
Author of over a dozen poetry collections, Paul Zimmer
ranks as one of America’s best known poets. He has received two NEA
fellowships, the Helen Bullis Memorial Award, two Pushcart Prizes, and
an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award in
Literature. In 1998, his book The Great Bird of Love
was selected for the National Poetry Series. Also an editor, Zimmer has
directed the university presses at Georgia, Iowa, and Pittsburgh, and
was instrumental in the foundation of the Pitt Poetry Series (which has
published most of the poets appearing in the Poetry-in-the-Round series
in recent memory). His latest book is Crossing to Sunlight: Selected Poems, a substantial retrospective of his most famous work