Visit this Webpage to access a career summary, curriculum vitae, and bibliography of the author. You may also access many other pages-such as the link titled "An Intro to Timothy Steele"-which provides the novice Steele fan with the author's statement about poetics, his essay on "The Forms of Poetry," an online interview, and a few of his selected poems. A great starting point for finding out information about Steele.

The Cortland Review: Timothy Steele
http://www.cortlandreview.com/features/00/06/

Here you'll find an interview with Steele by Cynthia Haven of The Cortland Review. Read about Steele's opinion regarding Walt Whitman, metrical poetry, and New Formalism. This interview shows you the wit and energy behind an excellent poet, and also informs the reader about the style and form of Steele's writing.

Cal State: In the Spotlight
http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/al/spotlight.html

Click here to view some good photographs and to read an excellent biography of the award-winning author. You can also view a poem written by the author in his own handwriting. A good site to visit for some quick information.

BIOGRAPHY
Timothy Steele (b. 1948) was born in Burlington, Vermont. He received his B.A. from Stanford, where the work of formalist poet Yvor Winters had a strong influence over the students and faculty. In 1977 he earned his Ph.D. from Brandeis University, studying under J. V. Cunningham, another formalist poet and friend of Winters. Steele moved back to California and was appointed lecturer in English at UCLA. In 1979 he published his first collection of poetry, Uncertainties and Rest., combining traditional, almost classical, poetic forms with contemporary settings and subject matter. Despite a warm critical reception, Steele was not widely known until the publication of Sapphics against Anger and Other Poems in 1986. Steele began to perfect the art of distilling quiet moments of his California setting or New England childhood in traditional forms such as the sonnet or quatrain in the collections Beatitudes (1988) and The Color Wheel (1994). In addition to his poetry, Steele has also published Missing Measures: Modern Poetry and the Revolt against Meter (1990), an examination of the evolution of formal poetry throughout history, and All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing: An Exploration of Meter and Versification (1999), essentially a how-to of iambic pentameter. Since 1987 he has taught English at California State University, Los Angeles.