Awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Wallace Stevens Award, the William Carlos Williams Award, Tate was born in Kansas City, Missouri. Tate’s first book The Lost Pilot won the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize while Tate was still a student at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, making him one of the youngest poets to receive the honor. His poems influenced a generation of poets, due to their dream logic, metaphysical and psychological investigation.Tate’s books include Worshipful Company of Fletchers, Distance from Loved Ones, Reckoner, Constant Defender, Viper Jazz, Absences, Hints to Pilgrims,The Oblivion Ha-Ha, Shroud of the Gnome, Return to the City of White Donkeys, Dome of the Hidden Pavilion, The Ghost Soldiers, The Eternal Ones of the Dream, The Government Lake, Dreams of a Dancing Robot Bee, The Route As Briefed, and countless chapbooks. About his work, the poet John Ashbery wrote in the New York Times: “Tate is the poet of possibilities, of morph, of surprising consequences, lovely or disastrous, and these phenomena exist everywhere… I return to Tate’s books more often perhaps than to any others when I want to be reminded afresh of the possibilities of poetry.”