Charles North

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This article is about the American poet. For the former Western Australian politician, see Charles North (Australian politician).

Charles North (b. 1941) was born in New York City and is an American poet.^[1]^[2] He has twice won the National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship.^[3] North is the poet-in-residence at Pace University in New York City. He earned his B.A. at Tufts University in 1962 (English and philosophy) and his M.A. at Columbia University in 1964 (English and Comparative Literature).

[edit] His works

Over the past 30 years, North has published a number of books of poetry, collections of poems, and an edition of critical essays.^[4] His books include: Six Buildings (Swollen Magpie Press 1977), Leap Year, Poems 1968-1978 (Kulchur 1978), Year of the Olive Oil (Hanging Loose Press 1989), No Other Way: Poets, Critics, and Painters (Hanging Loose Press 1998), New and Selected Poems (Sun and Moon Press, 1999), and The Nearness of the Way You Look Tonight (Adventures in Poetry 2001). North also edited anthologies of poetry with the late poet James Schuyler.