Frank Bidart has written numerous collections of poems, including Watching the Spring Festival (2008), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965-90 and Desire (1997), which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critic's Circle Award. Mr. Bidart’s honors also include the Bollingen Prize in American Poetry, the Wallace Stevens Award, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation Writer's Award and the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, among others. Mr. Bidart has taught poetry at Wellesley College since 1972.