David Russell Wagoner

Background

Wagoner, David Russell was born on June 5, 1926 in Massillon, Ohio, United States. Son of Walter Siffert and Ruth (Banyard) Wagoner.

Education

Born in Massillon, Ohio and raised in Whiting, Indiana from the age of seven, Wagoner attended Pennsylvania State University where he was a member of Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps and graduated in three years.

Career

Two of his books have been nominated for National Book He received an Master of Arts Wagoner was editor of Poetry Northwest from 1966 to 2002 and his play An Eye Foreign An Eye Foreign An Eye was produced in 1973. Wagoner was elected chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 1978 and served in that capacity until 1999. One of his novels, The Escape Artist, was turned into a film by executive producer Francis Ford Coppola.

He currently teaches in the low-residency Master of Fine Arts program of the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts on Whidbey Island.

The natural environment of the is the subject of much of David Wagoner"s poetry. He cites his move from the Midwest as a defining moment: "hen I came over the Cascades and down into the coastal rainforest for the first time in the fall of 1954, it was a big event for me, it was a real crossing of a threshold, a real change of consciousness.

Nothing was ever the same again.".

Achievements

• David Russell Wagoner has been listed as a notable writer, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Good Morning and Good Night (Illinois Poetry Series)

    (By continually discovering what's new in each day without...)

  • Traveling Light: COLLECTED AND NEW POEMS (Illinois Poetry Series)

    ('David Wagoner has won the acclaim of his peers and been ...)

  • The Escape Artist

    (Book by Wagoner, David)

  • Baby, Come on Inside
  • In broken country: Poems

    (Book of poems.)

  • The Road to Many a Wonder
  • Working Against Time
  • Walt Whitman Bathing: POEMS (Illinois Poetry Series)
  • By David Wagoner - Walt Whitman Bathing: POEMS (Illinois Poetry Series) (1996-08-16) Paperback
  • The Road to Many a Wonder: A Novel
  • Working Against Time
  • Riverbed
  • Dry Sun, Dry Wind (Indiana University Poetry Series)
  • The Nesting Ground
  • A place to stand (Indiana University poetry series)
  • First light: Poems
  • The hanging garden
  • Whole hog
  • Walt Whitman Bathing
  • Sleeping in the woods
  • (Traveling Light: Collected and New Poems) Author: David Wagoner published on (June, 1999)

Membership

Member Academy American Poets (chancellor 1978–2000), Society of America Magicians, National Association Blackfeet Indians (associate).

Connections

Married Patricia Lee Parrott, July 8, 1961 (divorced June 1982). Married Robin Heather Seyfried, July 24, 1982. Children: Alexandra Dawn, Adrienne Campbell.

Father:

Walter Siffert Wagoner

Mother:

Ruth (Banyard) Wagoner

Spouse:

Robin Heather Seyfried

Spouse:

Patricia Lee Parrott

child:

Alexandra Dawn Wagoner

child:

Adrienne Campbell Wagoner