James Tate
<p><strong>James Tate</strong>'s poems have been awarded the National Book Award, the Pulitzer</p><p>Prize, the Wallace Stevens Award, the William Carlos Williams Award, the Yale</p><p>Younger Poets Award, and the National Institute of Arts and Letters Award, and</p><p>have been translated across the globe. Tate was a member of the American</p><p>Academy of Arts and Letters; his many collections include The Lost Pilot, The</p><p>Oblivion Ha-Ha, Absences, Distance from Loved Ones, Worshipful Company</p><p>of Fletchers, and The Ghost Soldiers. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, he made his</p><p>home in Pelham, Massachusetts.</p>