William Stafford
(1914–1993)

The poetry of Willaim Stafford reflects his love for the natural world and his fear that modern technology will someday destroy the wilderness. Focusing on such subjects as the threat of nuclear war and the beauty of untamed nature, Stafford writes simply and directly about the causes in which he believes.

Born in Huchinson, Kansas, Stafford attended the University of Kansas. Although he began submitting poems to poetry journals during the 1940s, he did not publish his first book, West of Your City, until he was 46. Since then he has published several more collections of poetry, including Traveling Through the Dark, which earned him the National Book Award in 1962.

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