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William Matthews has been described as “an alert and engaging” 20^th century American poet and essayist. He had an unorthodox style though in that you could almost describe many of his poems as “essays in verse” where he seems to make no effort to include any standard poetic rhythm into the lines, or use rhyming couplets and the like. One of his poems is called Job Interview and it is literally a prose-like account of someone’s experiences getting and working in a job but turned into a 16-line “poem”. It looks like a poem but doesn’t actually read like one. He was popular though, winning multiple awards, gaining a Guggenheim fellowship and serving on numerous literary panels.

Matthews was born on the 11^th November 1942 in Cincinnati, Ohio and progressed well enough through his school years to gain a place at Yale University. He graduated from there with a BA and, later on, went to the University of North Carolina to attain his masters’ degree. He was a prolific poet who trawled ordinary life experiences for his subject matter. He explored the passage of time and the nature

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William Matthews (poet)

American poet

For other people named William Matthews, see William Matthews (disambiguation).

William Procter Matthews III (November 11, 1942 – November 12, 1997) was an American poet and essayist.

Life

Born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, Matthews attended Berkshire School and later earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University as well as a master's from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.^[1]

In addition to serving as a Writer-in-Residence at Boston's Emerson College, Matthews held various academic positions at institutions including Cornell University, the University of Washington at Seattle, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and the University of Iowa. He served as president of Associated Writing Programs and of the Poetry Society of America.^[2] At the time of his death he was a professor of English and director of the creative writing program at City College of New York.^[3] A reading series has been named for him at City College of New York.^[4]^[5] His sons are Sebas

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William Procter Matthews

Died November 12, 1997

An acclaimed poet and respected university professor, Bill Matthews was at the peak of his professional life when he died of a heart attack in New York City a day after his 55th

During his lifetime Bill published ten books of poetry, including Time and Money, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1996. He also won the Modern Poetry Association’s 1997 Ruth Lilly Award for After All: Last Poems, one of two collections of his poems that were published posthumously.

A fellow poet, Karen Swenson, said of Matthews, “ He was one of the most distinguished personal poets of our generation. He wrote his life.”

In the Asheville Poetry Review, Newton Smith, a friend and colleague of Bill’s, wrote: “Matthews’ poems, like his conversation, were a dance of intelligence, a kind of ‘erotic thrall of work as restraint against despair.’ They were improvisations by a master who delighted in the apt turn of phrase but who was aware that intelligence was always being overtaken by mortality…His focus i