Background
Piccione, Anthony was born on July 3, 1939 in Sheffield, Alabama, United States. Son of Nicholas Piccione and Martha Crawford.
( Late Morning Poem All night the universe fell and fall...)
Late Morning Poem All night the universe fell and falls headfirst through the ache of black and pinpoint light, the mind thinning farther, yet farther. Awake. The sun returns. I am a man. Still, this dream could stretch out and touch beginning and end, tonight maybe © BOA Editions, Ltd 1986
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Piccione, Anthony was born on July 3, 1939 in Sheffield, Alabama, United States. Son of Nicholas Piccione and Martha Crawford.
Bachelor, East Texas State University, 1962. Master of Arts, University Texas, El Paso, 1965. Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio University, 1969.
Born in Sheffield, Alabama, and raised on Long Island. His first book, Anchor Dragging, was chosen by Archibald MacLeish for BOA"s New Poets of America series. His poetry also appeared in numerous literary publications including American Poetry Review, Ohio Review, The Literary Review, Coffee House, and Web del Sol.
He earned a doctorate in English from Ohio University in 1969 (his thesis was on the poetry and poetics of Robert Bly) and taught English language and literature and creative writing at the State University of New York College at Brockport from 1970 until his retirement in 1995.
His awards included grants from the Constance Saltonstall Foundation and the State University of New New York In 2000, he founded Upright Hall, a residence retreat for poets on his farm in the hills near Prattsburgh, New New York
He was one of the first poets to support the Poets Foreign Peace readings organized by poet Larry Jaffe and others He also served as an unofficial poetry advisor for In Posse Review.
Piccione died after a brief battle with cancer on November 18, 2001.
His ashes were divided between his farm and a family plot near Brockport, New New York
( Late Morning Poem All night the universe fell and fall...)
Election inspector State Board Elections, Plattsburgh, New York, 1999, 2000.
Married Sandi Henschel, December 17, 1967 (divorced March 1984). Children: LIsa, Rachel, Sarah. Married Virginia Lance, July 14, 1984.
1 child, Todd.