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.