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George Merrill Witte is an American poet and book editor from Madison, New Jersey.[1] Witte is the current editor-in-chief of St. Martin's Press. He is the author of Does She Have a Name?, Deniability: Poems and The Apparitioners: Poems.

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George Witte
Born	Madison, New Jersey, U.S.
Alma mater	Duke University University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Occupation	Poet, book editor
Employer	St. Martin's Press
Known for	Deniability: Poems
Movement	Poetry

Career

George Witte is the author of three books of poetry: Does She Have a Name, Deniability and The Apparitioners.

His poems have also been published in The Atlantic, The Antioch Review, Boulevard, Gettysburg Review, The Hopkins Review, The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares,[2] Poetry (magazine), Prairie Schooner, New York Quarterly,[3] Southwest Review, Virginia Quarterly Review,[4] and The Yale Review.

Witte has also worked in book publishing at St. Martin's Press for thirty three years, as an editor, the publisher of Picador USA, and now as editor in chief. A graduate of Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he lives in Ridgewood, New Jersey .[5]

Awards

Witte received Poetry's Frederick Bock Prize for a group of poems, a poetry fellowship from the New Jersey Council on the Arts/Department of State, and his poem "At Dusk, the Catbird" was selected for The Best American Poetry 2007 anthology.

Collected works

• Does She Have a Name? NYQ Books, 2014 ISBN 978-1-63045-001-4
• Deniability: Poems. Orchises Press. 2009. ISBN 978-1-932535-19-8.
• The Apparitioners: Poems. Three Rail Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0-9760470-1-8.

Anthologies

• The Best American Poetry 2007
• Vocabula Bound 2
• Old Flame: From the First 10 Years of 32 Poems
• Rabbit Ears: TV Poems, ed. Joel Allegretti (NYQ Books, 2015)
• The Doll Collection, ed. Diane Lockward (Terrapin Books, 2016)
• Meta-Land: Poets of the Palisades II, ed. Paul Nash and Denise La Neve (The Poet's Press, 2016)
• What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing, ed. Peter Ginna (University of Chicago Press, 2017)

See also

• Deniability: Poems
• New York Sun
• Library Journal
• The Environmentalist
• The Huffington Post
• Chicago Sun-Times
• St. Martin's Press

External links

• "Night Swimming" in The Yale Review: https://yalereview.yale.edu/night-swimming
• "Process of Elimination" in Hopkins Review: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/627971/summary
• "Constellations" in Valparaiso Poetry Review: https://www.valpo.edu/valparaiso-poetry-review/2018/01/04/george-witte-constellations/
• "Gully," "Thaw," "Narcissus," and "Totenwald" in Poetry: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?volume=155&issue=6&page=14
• "As Is" in Nimrod: https://nimrod.utulsa.edu/archive/leaving_home/main.html
• "The Hatch" in Poetry Northwest: http://www.poetrynw.org/george-witte-the-hatch/
• "The Way Back" in The Antioch Review: https://antiochreviewblog.com/2016/04/13/poem-wednesday-the-way-back-by-george-witte/
• George Witte Goodreads page https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/801230.George_Witte
• Does She Have a Name? at NYQ Books: http://books.nyq.org/author/georgewitte
• Does She Have a Name? at Small Press Distribution: http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9781630450014/does-she-have-a-name.aspx?rf=1
• New York Sun
• Academia
• Orchises Press
• The Environmentalist
• The Huffington Post
• Does She Have a Name? on Amazon
• Does She Have a Name? on Barnes & Noble
• The Apparitioners on Amazon
• Deniability on Amazon
• Deniability on Barnes & Noble
• St. Martin's Press

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