Wyatt Prunty  (b. 1947) LINKS Sewanee Writers Conference http://www.sewaneewriters.org/ This site presents a lengthy review of Prunty’s new book, Unarmed and Dangerous: New and Selected Poems. Wyatt Prunty (June 1998) http://members.aol.com/poetrynet/month/archive/prunty/intro.html PoetryNet, a loose association of poets and satellite sites, uses “Prunty's early memories [of] weekend field trips taken with his father,” as a way to glean some insight into what makes this talented poet tick. Wyatt Prunty: Blood http://www.sewanee.edu/sreview/Prunty101.1.39.html This site presents Wyatt Prunty’s poems “Blood” and “Flying at Night.” Wyatt Prunty http://www.ctstateu.edu/univrel/ctreview/spring97/wpm.html The Connecticut Review, a literary journal published by Connecticut State University, reprints Wyatt Prunty’s poem “March.” BIOGRAPHY Prunty was born in Humboldt, Tennessee. After earning a B.A. from the University of the South in Sewanee, he went on to earn an M.A. from Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. (1979) from Louisiana State University. His poetry chapbook, Domestic of the Outer Banks, was published in 1980. Several volumes followed, among them Since the Noon Mail Stopped (1997) and Unarmed and Dangerous (2000). His poetry has been anthologized in Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry for both 1979 and 1980. He was awarded a poetry prize by Sewanee Review (1969) and has been a fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. He has taught in the graduate program of the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, where he was Elliott Coleman Professor of Poetry. Currently, he serves as Carlton Professor of English at the University of the South, where he teaches poetry, and where he founded and now directs the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.