Walter Bargen, Missouri's First Poet Laureate

Walter Bargen, Missouri Poet Laureate (January, 2008 - March, 2010)

Links:
www.walterbargen.com
Walter Bargen: Poet Laureate
Kevin Prufer speech-MAC Awards Ceremony 2/13/08

Articles:
Poetry gets wings: Missouri's first-ever poet laureate will spread the word - Mizzou Wire

Biography (PDF version)
On February 13, 2008, Governor Matt Blunt officially introduced Walter Bargen as the first poet laureate of Missouri. His work has appeared in over one hundred magazines, including American Literary Review, Missouri Review, American Letters and Commentary, Poetry Northwest, The Georgia Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Prairie Schooner. Bargen is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in poetry, and winner of the William Rockhill Nelson Award. Other awards include the Quarter After Eight Prose Prize, the St. Louis Poetry Center’s Hanks Prize, and the Chester H. Jones Foundation Prize. For 20 years, Walter has worked at the University of Missouri-Columbia as the Senior Coordinator for the Assessment Resource Center. He has a Bachelors degree in philosophy and a Masters degree in English education from UMC.

Walter’s Newest Publication Days Like This Are Necessary New and Selected Poems BkMk Press-UMKC 2009 $16.00 (Cover and inside art by Mike Sleadd) Selection, Reviews

Books by Walter Bargen
At the Dead Center of Day, BKMK Press, UMKC, 1997.
The Body of Water, Timberline Press, 2000.
Days Like This Are Necessary: New and Selected Poems, BKMK Press, UMKC, 2009
The Feast, BKMK Press, UMKC, 2003.
Fields of Thenar, Singing Wind Press, Gentile Press, 1980.
Harmonic Balance, Timberline Press, 2001.
Mysteries in the Public Domain, BKMK Press, UMKC, 1990.
Remedies for Vertigo, Word Tech Communications, 2006.
Rising Waters - Reflections on the Year of the Great Flood, Pekitanour Publications, 1994.
Theban Traffic, Word Tech Communications, 2008.
The Vertical River, Timberline Press, 1995.
Water Breathing Air, Timberline Press, 1999.
West of West, Timberline Press, 2007.
Yet Other Waters, Timberline Press, 1990.