Baron Wormser
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Baron Wormser | |
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 Wormser in 2021 | |
| Born | February 4, 1948 Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
| Died | October 7, 2025 (aged 77) Montpelier, Vermont, U.S. |
| Occupation | Poet, essayist, novelist, critic, educator |
| Education | Johns Hopkins University |
| Notable works | Impenitent Notes, Carthage |
| Notable awards | Frederick Bock Prize from Poetry, Kathryn A. Morton Prize, Bread Loaf fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship |
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Baron Wormser (February 4, 1948 – October 7, 2025) was an American poet from Baltimore, Maryland.[1]
Baron Wormser was born in Baltimore on February 4, 1948. He earned his BA from Johns Hopkins University, and later completed graduate studies at the University of California-Irvine and University of Maine.[2] Wormser served as librarian for 25 years in Madison, Maine.[2]
Wormser served as Poet Laureate of Maine from 2000 to 2006.[3][4][5][6] In 2000, he was a writer in residence at the University of South Dakota. From 2002, he taught in the Stonecoast MFA program at the University of Maine-Farmington,[2] and from 2009, Fairfield University.[5][7]
He founded the Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching at The Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire[8] and was later director of educational outreach at the Frost Place.[2]
Garrison Keillor has read Wormser's poems on The Writer's Almanac.[9]
Personal life and death
Wormser lived in Cabot[10] and spent his final years in Montpelier, Vermont, with his wife, Janet.[11] He died there on October 7, 2025, at the age of 77.[12]
Awards
- Frederick Bock Prize from Poetry
- Kathryn A. Morton Prize
- Bread Loaf fellowship
- National Endowment for the Arts fellowship
- 1998 Guggenheim Fellowship[13]
