Bill KnottBill Knott was born in Carson City, Michigan, in 1940 and died in Bay City, Michigan, in 2014. In the years between, Knott traveled the country—eventually settling in Boston—and proceeded to publish eleven full-length ooks of poems and was awarded both the Iowa Poetry Prize and a Guggenheim fellowship. From French surrealism to the avant-garde and back again, Knott’s electrifying verse perpetually innovated the poetic form while avoiding any one school of poetry. Viscerally accessible yet nonetheless a poet’s poet inspiring multiple generations of writers and artists, his influence on contemporary American poetry cannot be overstated. Read More Read Less