McNair, Wesley: - Wesley McNair is the author of twenty books. He has twice been invited by the Library of Congress to read his poetry; has won the Robert Frost and Theodore Roethke Prizes, grants from the Fulbright and Guggenheim Foundations, two Rockefeller Fellowships, and two grants in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2006 he was selected for a United States Artists Fellowship as one of America's finest living artists. He is Maine's Poet Laureate.