Poet Profile
Vince Clemente
Vince Clemente, a State University of New
York English Professor Emeritus, is a poet,
biographer and critic, whose many books
include John Ciardi: Measure of the Man
(University of Arkansas Press, 1987),
Paumanok Rising (1981), and eight volumes
of poetry, the latest being Sweeter than
Vivaldi (2002), which features art work by the late Ernesto F. Costa, who is represented in permanent collections in the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and America's Library of Congress. One of his books of poetry A Place for Lost Children (1997) is a text studied on Poets and Poetry, a Certificate and a part-time degree module, taught by Peter Thabit Jones at D.A.C.E., University of Wales Swansea.
Brought up in Brooklyn, New York, his work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Book Review, Newsday, South Carolina Review, and newspapers and other publications in Britain. It has also been featured in major anthologies, such as Darwin: A Norton Critical Edition, Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust (Texas Tech University Press) and September 11th: American Writers Respond.
For many years a trustee of the Walt Whitman Birthplace and founding editor of West Hills Review: a Walt Whitman Journal, he has lectured at Hofstra, CW Post, SUNY Albany, as well as at museums like the Hecksher and Parish. His literary friends have included John Ciardi, who organised many influential New England Bread Loaf events, where Robert Frost was a frequent participant, House of Scribner's New York Editor John Hall Wheelock, who edited many of Thomas Wolfe's novels, and James Dickey, author of Deliverance.
The Vince Clemente Papers, which is an impressive display of his long life as a writer, biographer and critic, and which includes the correspondence between Vince Clemente and Peter Thabit Jones and poem manuscripts by the Welsh poet, is part of the Department of Rare Books & Collections of Rochester University, New York.
He is, of course, the Consulting Editor: America for The Seventh Quarry.
"And this is why you are one of our important writers: because your speaking voice, natural voice, is your writing voice, too. And this means you have earned, by a long life of integrity, such honesty that makes the rest of us listen hard." - William Heyen, American poet and editor.
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