Philip Booth (1925-2007)

Philip Booth was born in Hanover, New Hampshire in 1925 and died there in 2007. He studied with Robert Frost at Dartmouth College and, after receiving a master’s degree at Columbia University, returned to Dartmouth to teach. His poetry is often concerned with the daily lives of New Englanders and a focus on New England landscape, important topics to the poet, who grew up in Maine. Booth also taught at Wellesley College and Syracuse University, where he helped establish the graduate program in creative writing. He published numerous books of poetry, most recently Lifelines: Selected Poems 1950-1999 (2000) and won honors such as Guggenheim, Rockefeller and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships. His book Letters from a Distant Land (1956) was a Lamont Poetry selection of the Academy of American Poets, and he became a fellow of the Academy of American Poets in 1983. Booth’s work appeared in many periodicals including The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, and The American Poetry Review.

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