William Heyen

William Heyen is Professor of English/Poet in Residence Emeritus at the College at Brockport, his undergraduate alma mater. He received his PhD from Ohio University, and an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from SUNY. A former Senior Fulbright Lecturer in American Literature in Germany, he has received NEA, Guggenheim, American Academy of Arts and Letters, and other awards. His work has appeared in hundreds of anthologies, and in The New Yorker, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Harper's, The...See more

William Heyen is Professor of English/Poet in Residence Emeritus at the College at Brockport, his undergraduate alma mater. He received his PhD from Ohio University, and an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from SUNY. A former Senior Fulbright Lecturer in American Literature in Germany, he has received NEA, Guggenheim, American Academy of Arts and Letters, and other awards. His work has appeared in hundreds of anthologies, and in The New Yorker, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Harper's, The Atlantic, The Southern Review, and numerous other magazines. His journals--five volumes published so far--may be the most extensive in American literature. Most of his Holocaust poems are collected in The Candle (2016). He is the author of WHETHER ART EILL EVER (Cross-Cultural Communications, 2021), Nature: Selected & New Poems 1970-2020, STRAIGHT'S SUITE FOR CRAIG COTTER & FRANK O'HARA (Mayapple Press, 2012), THE ANGERL VOICES: A POEM (Mayapple Press, 2010), and HOME: AUTOBIOGRAPHIES, ETC. (MAMMOTH books, 2005). See less