Discipline: Literature – poetry

Peter Viereck

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: South Hadley, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1953, 1954, 1961, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1985
More: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/peter-viereck
Peter Viereck (1916 - 2006) was an American poet, political thinker, and professor of history at Mount Holyoke College. Viereck was born in New York City. He received his B.A. summa cum laude in history from Harvard University in 1937. He then specialized in European history, receiving his M.A. in 1939 and his Ph.D. in 1942, again from Harvard. Viereck was prolific in his writing from 1938. He was a respected poet, with numerous published collections of poems and some poems first published in Poetry Magazine. He won the annual Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1949 for the collection Terror and Decorum. In 1955 he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Florence.

Studios

Banks

Peter Viereck worked in the Banks studio.

Banks, an ell on the north end of the Lodge dormitory, was first used as an artist’s studio in 1970. Since then, it has played host to an extraordinary list of writers working in several disciplines. In all seasons, Fellows have enjoyed the pastoral view through the French doors facing a field…

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