Leon Stokesbury (1945 Oklahoma City- November 13, 2018[1]) was an American poet.

Life

He graduated from the University of Arkansas with an MFA, and earned his Ph.D. at Florida State University. He taught creative writing at Georgia State University.[2]

Awards

  • 1999 National Endowment for the Arts Grant
  • 1998 Poets' Prize
  • 1990 Robert Frost Fellowship in Poetry from the Breadloaf Writers Conference
  • 1992 Distinguished Georgia Poet of the Year Award
  • 1985 Porter Prize

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. ISBN 9780292760042.
  • You are Here: Poems New and Old. University of Arkansas Press. 2016.
  • The Drifting Away of All We Once Held Essential. Trilobite Press. 1979.

Anthologies

Editor

References

  1. "Leon Stokesbury". Legacy.com. Retrieved 5 September 2020.
  2. "Department of English | People". Archived from the original on 2009-11-14. Retrieved 2009-09-01.
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