James Tate, Author at The Adroit Journal

James Tate

James Vincent Tate was an American poet. His work earned him the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He was a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His new selected collection is Hell, I Love Everybody, recently published by Ecco Press.

Real Blue Antelope By Matthew Zapruder and A Way In By Zachary Schomburg

Matthew Zapruder is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently Father’s Day, as…

Howdy, Partner by Esteban Rodriguez and A Goat, the Heart, and the World at Large by Leah Umansky

Esteban Rodríguez is the author of eight poetry collections, most recently Lotería (Texas Review Press,…

Put This in Your Sow Hat! by Arisa White and “I’d rather break your heart”: James Tate’s Serious Intent by Christopher Brean Murray

Arisa White is an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at Colby College. She…

No One Needed to Know by Matthew Rohrer and James Tate and the Town by Gillian Conoley

Matthew Rohrer is the author of several books, including the Believer Book Award-winning THE OTHERS…

Foreword to James Tate’s Hell, I Love Everybody

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