Welcome to Hayden Carruth Online

Mr. Carruth is the author of more than 30 books of poetry, criticism, essays, a novel and two anthologies. He has served as editor of Poetry, as poetry editor of Harper's, and for 20 years as the advisory editor of The Hudson Review. He has received fellowships from the Bollingen and Guggenheim Foundations and the NEA. He has been presented the Lenore Marshall Award, Paterson Poetry Prize, Vermont Governor's Medal, Carl Sandburg Award, Whiting Award and the Ruth Lily Prize. In 1992 he was awarded the National Book Critics' Circle Award for his Collected Shorter Poems and in 1997 the National Book Award in poetry for his 1996 book Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey. Shortly after the debut of Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey, he also won the $50,000 Lannon Literary Award. Recent titles include the 2001 publication of poems in Doctor Jazz and a 70-minute audio CD of Mr. Carruth reading selections from Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey, and Collected Shorter Poems. To purchase many of Mr. Carruth's works, visit the Copper Canyon Press web site and search the catalog, or phone 877-501-1393.

Mr. Carruth has been writing for more than 50 years and he taught at Syracuse University. Born August 3, 1921, the professor emeritus currently resides with his wife, also a talented poet, Joe-Anne McLaughlin Carruth, and their pets Stacey and Smudgie atop a hill overlooking a valley near the small central New York village of Munnsville. His son David lives nearby.

For more information about Mr. Carruth according to Mr. Carruth, follow the link to his autobiographical essays via the essay button.