Poets on Place
came out in April of 2005.
It was the third book by
W.T. Pfefferle.
Pfefferle, the author of
two earlier books for
Prentice Hall (Plug
In: The Guide to Music on the Net,
Writing that Matters:
A Rhetoric for the New Classroom),
and a widely published
poet (North American Review,
Nimrod, New Orleans
Review, Ohio Review,Carolina
Quarterly, Mississippi
Review, South Carolina Review, etc.),
traveled the country between
September 2003
and May 2004 interviewing
and photographing
62 American poets in almost
40 states.
The interviews dealt with
the role "place" has
played on the poets and
their work. Some of the
writers include: Mark Strand,
Miller Williams, Rita
Dove, Marvin Bell, David
Citino, Nikki Giovanni,
Donald Revell, Peter Cooley,
Naomi Shihab Nye,
Henry Taylor, Charles Wright,
Carol Muske-Dukes,
David Lehman, Bin Ramke,
C.D. Wright, and
David St. John.