{"id":290,"date":"2011-05-19T11:39:23","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T15:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/"},"modified":"2013-05-07T14:46:15","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T18:46:15","slug":"wesley-mcnair","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/welcome\/wesley-mcnair\/","title":{"rendered":"Wesley McNair Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/McNair-014-c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/McNair-014-c.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a>Wesley McNair<\/strong> was born June 19, 1941 in Newport N.H. He received a B.A. degree (English) from Keene State College in 1963; an M.A. degree (English) from the Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury College, in 1968; and an advanced master\u2019s degree at Bread Loaf (M.Litt. in American Literature) in 1975.<\/p>\n<p>He is the author of\u00a0nine volumes of poetry, including two limited editions. He has received two Rockefeller Fellowships for study at the Bellagio Center in Italy, and has held grants from the Fulbright and Guggenheim foundations, a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship in Literature, and two National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Fellowships in poetry. Other honors include the Devins Award for Poetry, the Jane Kenyon Award, the Robert Frost Award, the Theodore Roethke Prize, the Eunice Tietjens Prize from <em>Poetry <\/em>magazine, the Sarah Josepha Hale Medal, an Emmy award, and four honorary degrees for literary distinction.<\/p>\n<p>He has served\u00a0four times on the nominating jury for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry and was among the first recipients of a United States Artists Fellowship (2006). From 1998 to 2001 he was poetry editor for the <em>Maine Times<\/em>. His work has appeared in the Pushcart Prize annual; two editions of <em>The Best American Poetry<\/em>; over fifty anthologies; and\u00a0eighteen books, including poetry, essays, and anthologies. A guest editor in poetry for the 2010 Pushcart Prize XXXII: Best of the Small Presses. He has recently published\u00a0a volume of new and selected poems, <em>Lovers of the Lost<\/em> (David R. Godine) in 2010, and a memoir <em>The Words I Chose: A Memoir of Family and Poetry<\/em> (CMU), in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>In 2011, Wesley McNair was selected as Poet Laureate of the State of Maine.<\/p>\n<p>As an educator, McNair has been a teacher at the Hillsboro and the New London Central High Schools (N.H., 1963-1968); a visiting professor at Dartmouth College (1984); and a professor of English at Colby-Sawyer College (1968-1987), where he founded the American Studies program. As a professor at the University of Maine at Farmington from 1987 until his retirement in 2004, he founded and directed the Creative Writing program, and he was a visiting professor at Colby College from 1999 to 2004. He is currently appointed Writer in Residence at UMF.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Go to <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wesleymcnair.umf.maine.edu\/\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Wesley McNair&#8217;s Personal Website<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-290\" data-postid=\"290\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-290 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wesley McNair was born June 19, 1941 in Newport N.H. He received a B.A. degree (English) from Keene State College in 1963; an M.A. degree (English) from the Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury College, in 1968; and an advanced master\u2019s degree at Bread Loaf (M.Litt. in American Literature) in 1975. 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