Discipline: Literature – poetry

John Wheatcroft

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Lewisburg, PA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1973
More: www.johnwheatcroft.com/obituary
John Wheatcroft (1925-2017) was an American writer and teacher. A novelist, poet, and playwright, Wheatcroft's works have appeared in The New York Times and the Beloit Poetry Journal. Wheatcroft attended Temple University, Rutgers University, and Bucknell University, where he graduated in 1949. He began teaching in Bucknell's English department in 1952. He founded and directed the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets in 1985 and was the first director of Bucknell's Stadler Center for Poetry. He also served as a juror for the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Named professor emeritus in 1996, Wheatcroft continued to write and publish throughout his retirement.

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Garland

John Wheatcroft worked in the Garland studio.

Marian MacDowell and friends originally named this studio in memory of Anna Baetz, the nurse who helped care for Edward MacDowell in the waning years of his life. With generous support from the Garland family, the studio was renovated in 2013 and renamed the Peter and Mary Garland Studio. The inward opening, diamond-pane windows were replaced…

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