George Witte

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{{short description|American poet and book editor}}
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| birth_place = [[Madison, New Jersey]], U.S.
| occupation = Poet, book editor
| employer = [[St. Martin's Press]]
| alma_mater = [[Duke University]]<br />[[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]]
| movement = [[Poetry]]
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| known_for = [[Deniability: Poems]]
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'''George Merrill Witte''' is an American poet and book editor from [[Madison, New Jersey]]. He is editor-in-chief of [[St. Martin's Press]], and the author of ''An Abundance of Caution'', ''Does She Have a Name?'', ''[[Deniability: Poems]]'' and ''The Apparitioners: Poems''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pw.org/content/george_witte |last=Witte |first=George |title=George Witte |website=[[Poets & Writers]] |date=14 June 2005 |access-date=March 11, 2011}}</ref>

==Career==
Witte is the author of four books of poetry: ''An Abundance of Caution'', ''Does She Have a Name?'', ''Deniability'', and The ''Apparitioners''. His poems have been published in ''[[The Atlantic]]'', ''[[The Antioch Review]]'', ''[[Boulevard (magazine)|Boulevard]]'', ''[[Gettysburg Review]]'', ''[[The Hopkins Review]]'', ''[[The Kenyon Review]]'', ''[[Ploughshares]]'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=7154|title = Read by Author | Ploughshares}}</ref> ''[[Poetry (magazine)|Poetry]]'', ''[[Prairie Schooner]]'', ''[[New York Quarterly]]'',<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.nyqpoets.net/poet/georgewitte |title=NYQ Poets - George Witte |access-date=2010-01-14 |archive-date=2010-08-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100815014239/http://www.nyqpoets.net/poet/georgewitte |url-status=dead }}</ref> ''[[Southwest Review]]'', ''[[Virginia Quarterly Review]]'',<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.vqronline.org/author/5815/george-witte/ | title=George Witte | VQR Online }}</ref> and ''[[The Yale Review]]''.

Witte has also worked in book publishing at [[St. Martin's Press]] for 38 years, as an editor, publisher of Picador USA, and now editor-in-chief. A graduate of [[Duke University]] and the [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]], he lives in [[Ridgewood, New Jersey]].<ref>{{cite web | title=Selected Works by New Jersey Poets | website=The New York Times | date=2009-01-02 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/nyregion/new-jersey/04poemswebnj.html | access-date=2022-12-10}}</ref>

==Awards==
Witte received Poetry's Frederick Bock Prize for a group of poems, a poetry fellowship from the New Jersey Council on the Arts and New Jersey Department of State, and his poem "At Dusk, the Catbird" was selected for ''[[The Best American Poetry 2007]]'' anthology.

==Works==
* An Abundance of Caution, Unbound Edition Press, 2023
* Does She Have a Name? NYQ Books, 2014
* {{cite book| title=Deniability: Poems| publisher= Orchises Press | year= 2009| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BU5nAEpKPkYC&q=george+witte| isbn=978-1-932535-19-8 }}
* {{cite book| title=The Apparitioners: Poems| publisher= Three Rail Press | year= 2005| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VIM29Jx9X5EC&q=george+witte| isbn=978-0-9760470-1-8 }}

===Anthologies===
* [[The Best American Poetry 2007]]
* Vocabula Bound 2
* Old Flame: From the First 10 Years of 32 Poems
* [[Rabbit Ears: TV Poems]], ed. Joel Allegretti (NYQ Books, 2015)
* The Doll Collection, ed. Diane Lockward (Terrapin Books, 2016)
* Meta-Land: Poets of the Palisades II, ed. Paul Nash and Denise La Neve (The Poet's Press, 2016)
* What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing, ed. Peter Ginna (University of Chicago Press, 2017)
* What the House Knows, ed. Diane Lockward (Terrapin Books, 2025)

==References==
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New Jersey Monthly: [https://njmonthly.com/articles/arts-entertainment/george-witte-poetry-nj-transit/]

==External links==
*George Witte website [https://georgewittepoet.com/]
*Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/george.witte.12]
*Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/georgewittepoet/]
*Goodreads [https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/801230.George_Witte]
*[https://english.duke.edu/alumni/george-witte "George Witte"] at [[Duke University]]

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