Frank Bidart (born May 27, 1939) is an American poet and teacher.
Bidart was born in Bakersfield, California in 1939. He went to college at the University of California at Riverside and at Harvard University. At Harvard he was a student and friend of poets Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop.
He has taught at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Masachusetts since 1972.
In 2007 Bidart won Yale University's Bollingen Prize in American Poetry. Metaphysical Dog won the National Books Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. In 2017, Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 won the National Book Award. It also won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 2018.
Poetry
Golden State (1973) The Book of the Body (1977) The Sacrifice (1983) In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965–90 (1990) Desire (1997) Music Like Dirt (2002) Star Dust (2005) Watching the Spring Festival (2008) Metaphysical Dog (2013) Half-light: Collected Poems 1965–2016 (2017) Against Silence (2021)