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Keith Wilson,
poet and Professor of English, was born in Clovis, New Mexico,
in 1927. He joined the Navy in 1946 and graduated from the Naval
Academy in 1950 with an undergraduate degree in engineering. Wilson
served three tours in Korea before resigning his commission in
1954. In 1956, Wilson completed a Master of Arts degree in English,
at the University of New Mexico. Wilson's academic and teaching
career started in 1958 at the University of Arizona, Tucson, where
he taught English until 1960. In 1965, he was hired by New Mexico
State University as Professor of English and Poet-in-Residence,
and he taught there until his retirement in 1988.
Currently, Keith Wilson is a professor
emeritus New Mexico State University. The author of more than
twenty-five books of poetry, he is the recipient of many awards,
including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He lives
in Las Cruces, New México with his wife Heloise.
Wilson has published twenty-seven books
of poetry. He describes his writing as 'emotional geography.'
The poetry often focuses on personal growth within southwestern
landscapes. He also writes about New Mexico's tri-ethnic heritage,
or, its Hispanic, Anglo, and Native American cultural make-up.
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