Leon Stokesbury

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Name Leon Stokesbury Role Poet		Awards Poets' Prize

Books The Made Thing, Autumn rhythm, The drifting away, Often in different landscapes, The Royal Nonesuch Education University of Arkansas, Florida State University

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Leon Stokesbury (1945 Oklahoma City) is an American poet.

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Life

He graduated from the University of Arkansas with an MFA, and earned his Ph.D. at Florida State University. He teaches creative writing at Georgia State University.

Awards

1998 Poets' Prize

1990 Robert Frost Fellowship in Poetry from the Breadloaf Writers Conference

1992 Distinguished Georgia Poet of the Year Award

Works

"Unsent Letter to My Brother in His Pain", Good Times Santa Cruz

Autumn Rhythm: New and Selected Poems. University of Arkansas Press. 1996. ISBN 978-1-55728-438-9.

The Drifting Away. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press. 1986. ISBN 978-0-938626-51-0.

The royal nonesuch. Anhinga Press. 1984. ISBN 978-0-938078-17-3.

Chance of showers. Florida State University. 1984.

Often in Different Landscapes. Austin: University of Texas Press. 1976.

Anthologies

James Tate, David Lehman, eds. (1997). "Evening's End". The Best American Poetry 1997. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-684-81452-0. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)

Dave Smith, David Bottoms, eds. (1985). The Morrow anthology of younger American poets. Quill. ISBN 978-0-688-03450-4. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)

Editor

Leon Stokesbury, ed. (1990). Articles of war: a collection of American poetry about World War II. University of Arkansas Press. ISBN 978-1-55728-149-4.

The Made Thing: An Anthology of Contemporary Southern Poetry. University of Arkansas Press. 1999. ISBN 978-1-55728-579-9. 2nd edition.

References

Leon Stokesbury Wikipedia

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