William Pruitt

The Teacher Who Told Stories William Pruitt

The true character and dominant characteristic of these poems is their intensity of feeling. The poems are attractive due to their soft coloring and the poet's nobility of soul.

BIO
William Pruitt has been a construction laborer, reference librarian, hospital courier, loading dock receiver, manager in a natural foods collective, and for 26 years, teacher of English as a Second Language. He is a writer of poetry and narrative fiction as well as a storyteller. His poems and stories have been published in numerous journals and anthologies such as Ploughshares, Country Journal, Otis Nebula, Crack of the Spine Literary Magazine, Midway, Adelaide Literary Magazine, Hypertext, Cottonwood and Finding the Way Home: Poems of Awakening and Transformation (White Pine press). He has two chapbooks from White Pine and FootHills presses, and the self-published full-length book of poems Walking Home from the Eastman House. He is currently assistant editor for Narrative Magazine, Additionally, he has taught storytelling and performed traditional and original tales at hundreds of libraries, schools, art galleries, science centers and other institutions including the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York. He and his wife Pam live in Rochester New York, and have a daughter, Cedar, a son, Elliott, and two grandchildren.