{{short description|American poet and book editor}} {{Infobox person | name = George Witte | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = | birth_place = Madison, New Jersey, U.S.<!--As per WP:LINKDIRECT and Template:infobox person, birthplace indicates city, state, then country. No need to spell out "United States; 'U.S.' is fine.--> | occupation = Poet, book editor | employer = St. Martin's Press | alma_mater = Duke University<br />University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | movement = Poetry | spouse = | children = | signature = | website = | known_for = Deniability: Poems }}
'''George Merrill Witte''' is an American poet and book editor from Madison, New Jersey. He is editor-in-chief of St. Martin's Press, and the author of ''An Abundance of Caution'', ''Does She Have a Name?'', ''Deniability: Poems'' and ''The Apparitioners: Poems''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pw.org/content/george_witte |last=Witte |first=George |title=George Witte |website=Poets & Writers |date=14 June 2005 |access-date=March 11, 2011}}</ref>
==Career== Witte is the author of four books of poetry: ''An Abundance of Caution'', ''Does She Have a Name?'', ''Deniability'', and The ''Apparitioners''. His poems have been published in ''The Atlantic'', ''The Antioch Review'', ''Boulevard'', ''Gettysburg Review'', ''The Hopkins Review'', ''The Kenyon Review'', ''Ploughshares'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=7154|title = Read by Author | Ploughshares}}</ref> ''Poetry'', ''Prairie Schooner'', ''New York Quarterly'',<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.nyqpoets.net/poet/georgewitte |title=NYQ Poets - George Witte |access-date=2010-01-14 |archive-date=2010-08-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100815014239/http://www.nyqpoets.net/poet/georgewitte |url-status=dead }}</ref> ''Southwest Review'', ''Virginia Quarterly Review'',<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.vqronline.org/author/5815/george-witte/ | title=George Witte | VQR Online }}</ref> and ''The Yale Review''.
Witte has also worked in book publishing at St. Martin's Press for 38 years, as an editor, publisher of Picador USA, and now editor-in-chief. A graduate of Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he lives in Ridgewood, New Jersey.<ref>{{cite web | title=Selected Works by New Jersey Poets | website=The New York Times | date=2009-01-02 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/nyregion/new-jersey/04poemswebnj.html | access-date=2022-12-10}}</ref>
==Awards== Witte received Poetry's Frederick Bock Prize for a group of poems, a poetry fellowship from the New Jersey Council on the Arts and New Jersey Department of State, and his poem "At Dusk, the Catbird" was selected for ''The Best American Poetry 2007'' anthology.
==Works== * An Abundance of Caution, Unbound Edition Press, 2023 * Does She Have a Name? NYQ Books, 2014 * {{cite book| title=Deniability: Poems| publisher= Orchises Press | year= 2009| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BU5nAEpKPkYC&q=george+witte| isbn=978-1-932535-19-8 }} * {{cite book| title=The Apparitioners: Poems| publisher= Three Rail Press | year= 2005| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VIM29Jx9X5EC&q=george+witte| isbn=978-0-9760470-1-8 }}
===Anthologies=== * The Best American Poetry 2007 * Vocabula Bound 2 * Old Flame: From the First 10 Years of 32 Poems * Rabbit Ears: TV Poems, ed. Joel Allegretti (NYQ Books, 2015) * The Doll Collection, ed. Diane Lockward (Terrapin Books, 2016) * Meta-Land: Poets of the Palisades II, ed. Paul Nash and Denise La Neve (The Poet's Press, 2016) * What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing, ed. Peter Ginna (University of Chicago Press, 2017) * What the House Knows, ed. Diane Lockward (Terrapin Books, 2025)
==References== {{reflist|2}} New Jersey Monthly: [https://njmonthly.com/articles/arts-entertainment/george-witte-poetry-nj-transit/]
==External links== * [https://georgewittepoet.com Official site] *[https://english.duke.edu/alumni/george-witte "George Witte"] at Duke University
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