Synopsis "The Teacher Who Told Stories: Poems & Fiction (in English)"
The true character and dominant characteristic of these poems is their intensity of feeling. The poems are attractive due to their soft coloring and the poet's nobility of soul. BIOWilliam Pruitt has been a construction laborer, reference librarian, hospital courier, loading dock receiver, manager in a natural foods collective, assistant editor for Narrative Magazine and for 26 years, teacher of English as a Second Language He is a writer of poetry and narrative fiction as well as a storyteller. His poems and stories have been published in numerous journals and anthologies such as Ploughshares, Country Journal, Otis Nebula, Crack of the Spine Literary Magazine, Midway, Adelaide Literary Magazine, Hypertext, Cottonwood and Finding the Way Home: Poems of Awakening and Transformation (White Pine press). He has chapbooks from White Pine (Ravine Street) and FootHills Publishing (Bold Cities and Golden Plains and the upcoming Hands No Hands), the self-published full-length book of poems Walking Home from the Eastman House, and two full-length books from Cyberwit.net, 2021's The Binding Dance, and this year's The Teacher Who Told Stories: Poetry and Fiction. He has taught storytelling and performed traditional and original tales in libraries, bookshops, schools, art galleries, museums including the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York. He and his wife Pam live in Rochester New York, and have a daughter, Cedar, a son, Elliott, and two grandchildren.
