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Richard Williford Tillinghast

Born: 11/25/1940   Memphis , TN
Parents: Raymond Charles (a mechanical engineer) and Martha Tillinghast
Spouse: Nancy Walton Pringle (1st), Mary Graves (2nd)
Children: (2nd) Josh, Julia, Andrew, Charles
Address(es):
HI  
TN  
Contact Information:
Website : http://www-personal.umich.edu/~rwtill

Writings

Image Title Genre Audience Publisher Date
An Armchair traveller's history of Istanbul : city of remembering and forgetting Non Fiction , Travel Adult London : Armchair Traveller 2012
Wayfaring Stranger Poetry Adult San Luis Obispo, CA : Word Palace Press 2012
Finding Ireland : A Poet's Explorations of Irish Literature and Culture Poetry Adult South Bend, IN : University of Notre Dame Press 2009
The New Life : Poems Poetry Adult Providence, RI : Copper Beech Press 2008
Poetry and What is Real Poetry Adult Ann Arbor, MI : University of Michigan Press 2004
Six Mile Mountain Poetry Adult Ashland, OR : Story Line Press 2000
Today in the Cafe Trieste Poetry Adult Chester Springs, PA : Dufour Editions 1997
A Visit to the Gallery : The University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Editor and Author of Introduction : published on the occasion of the Museum of Art's fiftieth anniversary 		Non Fiction Adult Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan 1997
Robert Lowell's Life and Work : Damaged Grandeur
- Criticism 		Non Fiction Adult Ann Arbor, MI : University of Michigan Press 1995
The Stonecutter's Hand : Poems Poetry Adult Boston, MA : David R. Godine 1994
Contemporary Michigan Poetry : Poems from the Third Coast
- Included in Anthology 		Poetry Detroit, MI : Wayne State University 1988
Our Flag Was Still There
- Includes Swanee in Ruins 		Poetry Adult Middletown, CN : Wesleyan University Press 1984
Sewanee in Ruins Poetry Adult Sewanee, Tennessee : University of the South 1981
The Knife and Other Poems Poetry Adult Middletown, CN : Wesleyan University Press 1980
Sleep Watch Poetry Adult Middletown, CN : Wesleyan University Press 1969
- Contributor to Antaeus, Atlantic Monthly, Boston Globe, Crazy Horse, Critical Quarterly, Harper's Bazaar, Nation, New Republic, New Yorker, Ploughshares, Southern Review, Yale Review Poetry

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: No

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author
Poet
Other - Reviewer

Education:

Degree Institution Location Date
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
- Dissertation: "The Invention of Zoning in the Emerging Planning Profession of Late-Nineteenth-Century 		University of North Carolina Chapel Hill , NC 1972

Career:

Position Organization Location Date
- Summer fellowhip at University of Bosphorus, Istanbul American Institute in Turkey Fellowship Turkey 1990 -1990
Faculty Associate Michigan Institute for the Humanities Ann Arbor 1989 -1990
Associate Professor, Professor of English University of Michigan Ann Arbor 1983 -2005
Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on Poetry Harvard University Cambridge 1980 -1983
Visiting Professor University of the South Sewanee , TN 1979 -1980
Assistant professor of English University of California Berkeley 1968 -1973
Poetry Reviewer
- New York Times Book Review, Washington Post, The Nation, The Hudson Review, and The New Criterion 		New York Times Book Review, Washington Post and The Nation

Other Resources:

MeLCat Links:
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