Terrell, Carroll Franklin

Carroll Franklin Terrell was born in 1917 in Richmond, Maine and died in 2003 in Bangor, Maine. After receiving his undergraduate degree from Bowdoin College in 1940 he entered the Army and served in World War II from 1941-1945, attaining the rank of captain. He began teaching at the University of Maine in 1948 and earned his master's degree from the university in 1950. He later earned a Ph. D. from New York University. He was an internationally recognized scholar on the poetry of Ezra Pound and served as president of the Ezra Pound Society. In 1971 he founded the National Poetry Foundation and also founded Northern Lights Press in Orono. He wrote 3 books of poetry: Smoke and fire, Rod and lightning, and Dark and light. He was editor of the Man/Woman and poet series, founder and editor of Paideuma, and founder and editor of Sagetrieb; a journal devoted to poets in the Pound/H.D./Williams tradition.

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