University of Kansas

For more poems, see the Academy of America Poets

• Once in the 40's
• With Kit, Age 7, at the Beach

and The Poetry Foundation

• A Family Turn
• A Human Condition
• A Message from the Wanderer
• A Posy
• A Survey
• A Tentative Welcome to Readers
• Accountability
• Across Kansas
• After Arguing against the Contention That Art Must Come from Discontent
• After Plotinus
• An Introduction to Literature
• An Oregon Message
• Annals of T'ai Chi: "Push Hands"
• As Pippa Lilted
• At Earle Birney's School
• At the Bomb Testing Site
• At the Old Place
• At the Un-National Monument along the Canadian Border
• Augustine
• Bess
• Bi-Focal
• Boom Town
• Brother
• By the Escalator
• Chickens the Weasel Killed
• Coming Back
• Communion at Lunch
• Even Now
• Faint Message
• Following
• Footnote
• Found in a Storm
• Gasoline
• Growing Up: Mother
• How I Escaped
• Humanities Lecture
• In a Time of Need
• In Dear Detail, by Ideal Light
• In Fog
• In Fur
• In Medias Res
• In Response to a Question: "What Does the Earth Say?"
• In Sublette's Barn
• In the Deep Channel
• Juke Joint
• Learning a Word While Climbing
• Lines To Stop Talking By
• Looking Across the River
• Meditation
• Monuments for a Friendly Girl at a Tenth Grade Party
• Near
• Noticing
• Oak
• On an Island in the San Juans
• On Penitencia Creek
• On Winter Ridge
• One Day in August
• One Home
• One of the Fathers
• Our City Is Guarded by Automatic Rockets
• Peace Walk
• Portrait of a Refugee Musician
• Presenting These Pieces
• Priest Lake
• Reaching Out To Turn On a Light
• Report to Crazy Horse
• Resolutions
• Return to Single-Shot
• Sayings from the Northern Ice
• Sending These Messages
• Shepherd
• Stories To Live in the World With
• Subsistence
• Sunday Avenue
• Super Market
• That Weather
• The Bravery of Love
• The Collector
• The Day I Got the Good Idea
• The Day Millicent Found the World
• The Day You Are Reading This
• The Farm on the Great Plains
• The Girl Engaged to the Boy Who Died
• The Guitar by the Chair
• The Magic Mountain
• The Move to California
• The Museum at Tillamook
• The Rescued Year
• The Thought Machine
• The Well Rising
• Things We Did That Meant Something
• Third Street
• This Room When Winter Comes
• This Town: Winter Morning
• Thought, the Pacifist
• Traveling through the Dark
• Twelve Threads
• Two Evenings
• Uncle Bill Visits
• Visions
• Vocation
• Walking Away an Undeclared War
• Walking West
• Watching Her Go
• Watching the Jet Planes Dive
• Weather Report
• What I Heard Whispered at the Edge of Liberal, Kansas
• With Neighbors One Afternoon
• Your Life

   

  • • Garrison, Steve. "William Stafford". Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 5: American Poets Since World War II, First Series. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by Donald J. Greiner, University of South Carolina. The Gale Group, 1980. pp. 292-299.
    • Stafford, William. West of Your City. Los Gatos, CA:Talisman Press, 1960.
    • --. Traveling through the Dark. New York, NY: Harper, 1962.
    • --. The Rescued Year. New York, NY: Harper, 1966. PS3537 .T143 R4 Robarts Library.
    • --. Eleven Untitled Poems. Mt. Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1968.
    • --. Weather: Poems. Mt. Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1969.
    • --. Allegiances. New York, NY: Harper, 1970. PS3537 .T143 A8 Robarts Library.
    • --. Temporary Facts. Athens, OH: Duane Schneider Press, 1970.
    • --. In the Clock of Reason. Victoria, BC: Soft Press, 1973. PS3537 .T143 I5 Robarts Library.
    • --. Someday, Maybe. New York, NY: Harper, 1973. PS3537 .T143 S6 1973 Robarts Library.
    • --. Going Places: Poems. Reno, NV: West Coast Poetry Review, 1974. PS3537 .T143 G72 John W. Graham Library at Trinity College.
    • -- (With son, Kim Robert Stafford). Braided Apart. Lewiston, ID: Confluence, 1976.
    • --. The Design on the Oriole. Mt. Horeb, WI: Night Heron Press, 1977.
    • --. Stories That Could Be True: New and Collected Poems. New York, NY: Harper, 1977. PS3537 .T143 S7 John W. Graham Library at Trinity College.
    • --. Tuft by Puff. Mt. Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1978.
    • --. Things That Happen Where There Aren't Any People. Brockport, NY: BOA Editions, 1980. PS3537 .T143 T44 1980 Robarts Library.
    • --. Sometimes Like A Legend: Puget Sound Poetry. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1981

    .

    • --. A Glass Face in the Rain: New Poems. New York, NY: Harper, 1982. PS3537 .T143 G5 1982 Robarts Library.
    • --. Roving across Fields: A Conversation and Uncollected Poems 1942-1982. Edited by Thom Tammaro. Daleville, IN: Barnwood, 1983. PS3537 .T143 R6 1983 Robarts Library.
    • --. Smoke's Way: Poems from Limited Editions, 1968-1981. Port Townsend, WA: Graywolf, 1983.
    • --. Listening Deep: Poems. Great Barrington, MA: Penmaen Press, 1984.
    • --. An Oregon Message. New York, NY: Harper, 1987. PS3537 .T143 07 1987 Robarts Library.
    • --. Passwords: Poems. New York, NY: Harper, 1991. PS3537 .T143 P34 1991 Robarts Library.
    • --. My Name Is William Tell. Lewiston, ID: Confluence Press, 1992.
    • --. Learning to Live in the World: Earth Poems. Edited by Jerry Watson and Linda Obbink. San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace, 1994.
    • --. The Darkness Around Us Is Deep: Selected Poems of William Stafford. Edited by Robert Bly. New York, NY: Harper, 1994. PS3537 .T143 A6 Robarts Library.
    • --. The Methow River Poems. Lewiston, ID: Confluence Press, 1995.
    • --. Even in Quiet Places: Poems. Afterword By Kim Stafford. Lewiston, ID: Confluence Press, 1996. PS3537 .T143 E93 1996 Robarts Library.
    • --. The Way It Is: New & Selected Poems. Saint Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 1998. PS3537 .T143 W37 1998 Robarts Library.

For more poems, see the Academy of America Poets

• Once in the 40's
• With Kit, Age 7, at the Beach

and The Poetry Foundation

• A Family Turn
• A Human Condition
• A Message from the Wanderer
• A Posy
• A Survey
• A Tentative Welcome to Readers
• Accountability
• Across Kansas
• After Arguing against the Contention That Art Must Come from Discontent
• After Plotinus
• An Introduction to Literature
• An Oregon Message
• Annals of T'ai Chi: "Push Hands"
• As Pippa Lilted
• At Earle Birney's School
• At the Bomb Testing Site
• At the Old Place
• At the Un-National Monument along the Canadian Border
• Augustine
• Bess
• Bi-Focal
• Boom Town
• Brother
• By the Escalator
• Chickens the Weasel Killed
• Coming Back
• Communion at Lunch
• Even Now
• Faint Message
• Following
• Footnote
• Found in a Storm
• Gasoline
• Growing Up: Mother
• How I Escaped
• Humanities Lecture
• In a Time of Need
• In Dear Detail, by Ideal Light
• In Fog
• In Fur
• In Medias Res
• In Response to a Question: "What Does the Earth Say?"
• In Sublette's Barn
• In the Deep Channel
• Juke Joint
• Learning a Word While Climbing
• Lines To Stop Talking By
• Looking Across the River
• Meditation
• Monuments for a Friendly Girl at a Tenth Grade Party
• Near
• Noticing
• Oak
• On an Island in the San Juans
• On Penitencia Creek
• On Winter Ridge
• One Day in August
• One Home
• One of the Fathers
• Our City Is Guarded by Automatic Rockets
• Peace Walk
• Portrait of a Refugee Musician
• Presenting These Pieces
• Priest Lake
• Reaching Out To Turn On a Light
• Report to Crazy Horse
• Resolutions
• Return to Single-Shot
• Sayings from the Northern Ice
• Sending These Messages
• Shepherd
• Stories To Live in the World With
• Subsistence
• Sunday Avenue
• Super Market
• That Weather
• The Bravery of Love
• The Collector
• The Day I Got the Good Idea
• The Day Millicent Found the World
• The Day You Are Reading This
• The Farm on the Great Plains
• The Girl Engaged to the Boy Who Died
• The Guitar by the Chair
• The Magic Mountain
• The Move to California
• The Museum at Tillamook
• The Rescued Year
• The Thought Machine
• The Well Rising
• Things We Did That Meant Something
• Third Street
• This Room When Winter Comes
• This Town: Winter Morning
• Thought, the Pacifist
• Traveling through the Dark
• Twelve Threads
• Two Evenings
• Uncle Bill Visits
• Visions
• Vocation
• Walking Away an Undeclared War
• Walking West
• Watching Her Go
• Watching the Jet Planes Dive
• Weather Report
• What I Heard Whispered at the Edge of Liberal, Kansas
• With Neighbors One Afternoon
• Your Life

   

  • • Garrison, Steve. "William Stafford". Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 5: American Poets Since World War II, First Series. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by Donald J. Greiner, University of South Carolina. The Gale Group, 1980. pp. 292-299.
    • Stafford, William. West of Your City. Los Gatos, CA:Talisman Press, 1960.
    • --. Traveling through the Dark. New York, NY: Harper, 1962.
    • --. The Rescued Year. New York, NY: Harper, 1966. PS3537 .T143 R4 Robarts Library.
    • --. Eleven Untitled Poems. Mt. Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1968.
    • --. Weather: Poems. Mt. Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1969.
    • --. Allegiances. New York, NY: Harper, 1970. PS3537 .T143 A8 Robarts Library.
    • --. Temporary Facts. Athens, OH: Duane Schneider Press, 1970.
    • --. In the Clock of Reason. Victoria, BC: Soft Press, 1973. PS3537 .T143 I5 Robarts Library.
    • --. Someday, Maybe. New York, NY: Harper, 1973. PS3537 .T143 S6 1973 Robarts Library.
    • --. Going Places: Poems. Reno, NV: West Coast Poetry Review, 1974. PS3537 .T143 G72 John W. Graham Library at Trinity College.
    • -- (With son, Kim Robert Stafford). Braided Apart. Lewiston, ID: Confluence, 1976.
    • --. The Design on the Oriole. Mt. Horeb, WI: Night Heron Press, 1977.
    • --. Stories That Could Be True: New and Collected Poems. New York, NY: Harper, 1977. PS3537 .T143 S7 John W. Graham Library at Trinity College.
    • --. Tuft by Puff. Mt. Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1978.
    • --. Things That Happen Where There Aren't Any People. Brockport, NY: BOA Editions, 1980. PS3537 .T143 T44 1980 Robarts Library.
    • --. Sometimes Like A Legend: Puget Sound Poetry. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1981

    .

    • --. A Glass Face in the Rain: New Poems. New York, NY: Harper, 1982. PS3537 .T143 G5 1982 Robarts Library.
    • --. Roving across Fields: A Conversation and Uncollected Poems 1942-1982. Edited by Thom Tammaro. Daleville, IN: Barnwood, 1983. PS3537 .T143 R6 1983 Robarts Library.
    • --. Smoke's Way: Poems from Limited Editions, 1968-1981. Port Townsend, WA: Graywolf, 1983.
    • --. Listening Deep: Poems. Great Barrington, MA: Penmaen Press, 1984.
    • --. An Oregon Message. New York, NY: Harper, 1987. PS3537 .T143 07 1987 Robarts Library.
    • --. Passwords: Poems. New York, NY: Harper, 1991. PS3537 .T143 P34 1991 Robarts Library.
    • --. My Name Is William Tell. Lewiston, ID: Confluence Press, 1992.
    • --. Learning to Live in the World: Earth Poems. Edited by Jerry Watson and Linda Obbink. San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace, 1994.
    • --. The Darkness Around Us Is Deep: Selected Poems of William Stafford. Edited by Robert Bly. New York, NY: Harper, 1994. PS3537 .T143 A6 Robarts Library.
    • --. The Methow River Poems. Lewiston, ID: Confluence Press, 1995.
    • --. Even in Quiet Places: Poems. Afterword By Kim Stafford. Lewiston, ID: Confluence Press, 1996. PS3537 .T143 E93 1996 Robarts Library.
    • --. The Way It Is: New & Selected Poems. Saint Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 1998. PS3537 .T143 W37 1998 Robarts Library.

William Herbert Carruth, born on April 5, 1859, near Osawatomie, Kansas, received his B.A. in modern languages at the University of Kansas (1880), studied at the Universities of Berlin and Munich, and obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University (1889, 1893). He served as Professor of Modern Languages and then German at the University of Kansas throughout his life. His many academic publications in German studies included textbooks, editions, and translations. In 1908 G. P. Putnam's Sons published his Each in his own Tongue and Other Poems, titled after a poem that first appeared about the turn of the century in the New England Magazine and that very quickly became internationally celebrated. In June 1882, Carruth married Frances Schlegel, who served as Professor of Modern Languages at Kansas until her death in 1908. They had one daughter. On June 10, 1910, he married Katherine Kent Morton. Carruth died in 1924.