Authors and Illustrators Database

Richard Williford Tillinghast

Born: 11/25/1940  Memphis, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent
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

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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, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent 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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