Claude Wilkinson

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Name Claude Wilkinson Role Poet		Awards Whiting Awards

Books Joy in the morning, Reading the Earth: Poems Similar People Harryette Mullen, Rita Dove, Terrance Hayes, Cornelius Eady, Natasha Trethewey
Education University of Mississippi

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Claude Wilkinson (born Memphis, Tennessee) is an American poet, and artist.

Life

He graduated from the University of Mississippi and University of Memphis. He was writer-in-residence at the University of Mississippi.

His work has appeared in Atlanta Review, Blue Mesa Review, California State Poetry Quarterly, Chattahoochee Review, The Oxford American, Poem, South Dakota Review, The Southern Review and Xavier Review. His paintings have been exhibited at University of Mississippi.

He lives in Nesbit, Mississippi.

Awards

2000 Whiting Award

1999 Walter E. Dakin Fellowship in Poetry from the Sewanee Writers' Conference

1997 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award

Works

Reading the Earth: Poems. Michigan State University Press. 1998. ISBN 978-0-87013-481-4.

Joy in the Morning. LSU Press. 2004. ISBN 978-0-8071-3006-3.

Marvelous Light

Anthologies

E. Ethelbert Miller, ed. (2002). Beyond the frontier: African-American poetry for the 21st century. Black Classic Press. ISBN 978-1-57478-017-8.

C. E. Greer, Jenny Kander, eds. (2007). "White Horses". Say This of Horses. University of Iowa Press. ISBN 978-1-58729-526-3. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)

Evensong: contemporary American poets on spirituality (Bottom Dog Press, 2006) ISBN 978-1-933964-01-0

Fresh Water (Pudding House Publications, 2002)

References

Claude Wilkinson Wikipedia

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