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William Heyen was born on 1 November, 1940 in Brooklyn, is an American journalist. Discover William Heyen's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 83 years old?

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Occupation Poet, writer
Age 83 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 1 November, 1940
Birthday 1 November
Birthplace Brooklyn
Nationality United States

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1940

William Helmuth Heyen (born November 1, 1940) is an American poet, editor, and literary critic.

He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Suffolk County.

1967

He received a BA from the State University of New York at Brockport and earned a doctorate in English from Ohio University in 1967.

1970

The final version of "The Mower" appeared in his first collection, Depth of Field (1970).

1971

He spent the 1971–1972 academic year as a Senior Fulbright Lecturer in American literature at the Leibniz University Hannover, West Germany.

During this time, he visited a number of sites involved in the Holocaust.

These experiences, combined with his own family history (including an uncle who served in the German army), resulted in three volumes of poetry on the subject published over the next 32 years.

He has been awarded NEA, Guggenheim, American Academy & Institute of Arts & Letters, and other prizes.

Prior to the publication of his first collection, a privately printed ephemeral edition of the poem "The Mower," including several drafts, was printed in softcover.

1974

Other collections are Noise in the Trees (1974), The Swastika Poems (1977), Long Island Light (1979), Erika: Poems of the Holocaust (1984), Pterodactyl Rose (1991), Crazy Horse In Stillness (1996), Pig Notes & Dumb Music: Prose on Poetry (1998), Diana, Charles, & the Queen (1998), Shoah Train (2003), which was a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry in 2004, The Angel Voices (Mayapple Press, 2010), and most recently Straight’s Suite for Craig Cotter & Frank O’Hara (Mayapple Press, 2012).

1986

He also authored a novel, Vic Holyfield and the Class of ’57 (1986).

Selections of his poems have been translated into Italian (by poet Frank Judge), into Swedish (by Stewe Claeson) and into German.

2000

He taught American literature and creative writing at SUNY–Brockport for over 30 years before retiring in 2000.

He also briefly served as Director of the Brockport Writers Forum, a series of readings by and video interviews with numerous American and international authors.

His work has been published in numerous literary journals and periodicals, including The New Yorker, The Ontario Review, Harper's, TriQuarterly, The Georgia Review, Poetry, American Poetry Review, The Southern Review and online publications such as Exit-Online.

His work has also been published in 200 anthologies, in dozens of limited-edition chapbooks and broadsides, and on audio.

He edited two major collections of poetry, The Generation of 2000: Contemporary American Poets, and American Poets in 1976.

2001

He is also the editor of September 11, 2001: American Poets Respond (2002).

Many of his manuscripts, correspondence, and his collection of first editions of modern American authors are archived in the Rare Books Collection at University of Rochester, at Boston University, at the Beinecke Library at Yale University, and at the University of New Hampshire.

Other volumes of the past few years are September 11, 2001: American Writers Respond (2002) a collection of short stories, The Hummingbird Corporation (2003), and a collection of 30 years of essays called Home: Autobiographies, etc.

2004

In 2004, he was one of the five finalists for the National Book Award for poetry for his volume Shoah Train.

2006

His most recent collections are Confessions of Doc Williams and Other Poems (2006) and Titanic & Iceberg: Early Essays and Reviews (2006).