William Simone Di Piero is an American poet, translator, essayist, and educator. He has published ten collections of poetry and five collections of essays in addition to his translations. In 2012 Di Piero received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for his lifetime achievement; in making the award, Christian Wiman noted, "He’s a great poet whose work is just beginning to get the wide audience it deserves."

Life

He grew up in South Philadelphia in an Italian-American working-class neighborhood, attended St. Joseph's College in Philadelphia and received a master's degree from San Francisco State University in 1971. He taught at Louisiana State University, and Northwestern University. In 1982, he joined Stanford University. He is an art critic, and curated a photography exhibit of Jonathan Elderfield. His work appeared in AGNI, Ploughshares, and Triquarterly. He lives in San Francisco.

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Online poetry