John Witte's poems have appeared widely, in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Southern Review, and The Norton Introduction to Literature, among several anthologies. He has received two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, a residency at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and numerous other grants and awards. His first book, Loving the Days(Wesleyan University Press), was favorably reviewed by Richmond Lattimore, Marge Piercy, and Gerald Stern. His new collection, The Hurtling, is forthcoming from Orchises Press in January, 2005. He lives with his family in Eugene, where he teaches, and edits Northwest Review, at the University of Oregon.