William Kilborn Knott was an American poet and visual artist whose poems were sometimes surreal with startling juxtaposed images. His collections included The Naomi Poems, Book One: Corpse and Beans (1968), Becos (1983), Outremer, winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize (1988), The Unsubscriber (2004), and two collections published by BOA Editions: The Quicken Tree (1995) and Laugh at the End of the World: Collected Comic Poems 1969–1999 (2000—out of print). Knott taught for more than 25 years at Emerson College in Boston. He died in 2014.