Name Seaborn Jones | Role Poet | |
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Books Going Farther Into the Woods Than the Woods Go, Drowning from the Inside Out | ||
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Seaborn Jones (1942 – October 3, 2014) was an American poet. He is the author of several books of poetry.
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Life and writing
Jones was born in Macon, Georgia in 1942. He is named after a family forebearer, 19th-century Congressman Seaborn Jones.
He is a former United States Marine.
Jones has been published in the Chattahoochee Review, New York Quarterly, Pearl, River Styx, Rockhurst Review, Southern Poetry Review, Bogg, Poetry New Zealand, Studio One, Wilshire Review, Louisiana Review and numerous other journals, including translations of his work for European publications. His poems have been anthologized in 80 on the 80s (Ashland Poetry Press, 1990), Scorched Hands (Pariah Press), Chester H. Jones Foundation National Poetry Contest Winners 1993, and in Java Monkey Speaks Anthology 3 in 2008. Jones continues to speak and read extensively throughout the United States.
Jones describes his poems as "architectural," explaining: "I write down the mood or phrase in a notebook and build on it. Some poems seem to just roll out with no effort. I can only assume that these poems have been incubating in my unconscious and have percolated to the conscious. Everything requires rewriting."
Recognition
Seaborn Jones received the Georgia Author of the Year Award in poetry in 1998 for his book X-Ray Movies.
Jones has received three International Merit Awards from Atlanta Review.
He has won the Violet Reed Haas Prize for Poetry, and was selected as the 1991 Alan Collins Scholar in Poetry at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.
Online magazine PoetryNet made him its Poet of the Month in July 2009.
In 2010 Mercer University Press awarded him the Adrienne Bond Award for Poetry for his manuscript, Going Farther into the Woods than the Woods Go. The citation accompanying the award read: "Unlike any poet writing in the South, Seaborn Jones maintains a figurative connection to surrealism, one of the essential pathways of subjectivity in American Art."
Publications
Except where noted, bibliographic information courtesy SeabornJones.com.