William Pitt Root (born 1941 Austin, Minnesota) is an American poet.
[1] He was raised in Fort Myers, Florida.
[3] He was Tucson Poet Laureate from 1997 to 2002, and taught at Hunter College.
[6] His work appeared in Asheville Poetry Review,[7] The Atlantic,[8] The New Yorker,[9] Harpers,[10] The Nation, Commonweal, The American Poetry Review, Tri@uarterly, and Poetry.
[11] He is married to poet Pamela Uschuk; they live near Durango, Colorado and Tucson Arizona