James Tate - James Vincent Tate was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He taught creative writing at the University of California, Berkeley and Columbia University, and at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he worked since 1971. He was a member of the poetry faculty at the MFA Program for Poets Writers, along with Dara Wier and Peter Gizzi.Dudley Fitts selected Tates first book of poems,
The Lost Pilot (1967) for the Yale Series of Younger Poets while Tate was still a student at the University of Iowa Writers Workshop; Fitts praised Tates writing for its natural grace. Despite the early praise he received Tate alienated some of his fans in the seventies with a series of poetry collections that grew and strange.He published two James Vincent Tate was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He taugh...
