Rodney Jones
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Rodney Jones is an American poet and professor of English at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Jones was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the winner of the 1989 National Book Critics Circle Award. His other honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Peter I.B. Lavan Award from the Academy of American Poets, the Jean Stein Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, a Southeast Booksellers Association Award, and a Harper Lee Award.
[edit] Bibliography
- The Story They Told Us of Light (1980)
- The Unborn (1985)
- Transparent Gestures (1989)
- Apocalyptic Narrative (1993)
- Things That Happen Once (1996)
- Elegy for the Southern Drawl (1999)
- Kingdom of the Instant: Poems (2004)
- Salvation Blues, (2006) (winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, shortlisted for the 2007 International Griffin Poetry Prize)
[edit] External links
- Griffin Poetry Prize biography, including audio and video clips
- Profile on Blackbird online journal Web site
- Announcement of Rodney Jones winning prestigious 2007 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award in Southern Illinois University Carbondale News
- The winter of his content - interview with Rodney Jones in seMissiourian.com News
- Rodney Jones, "An Absence I Know I Won't Reclaim". Southern Spaces, 22 January 2009. http://www.southernspaces.org/contents/2009/jones/1a.htm
- Video of Rodney Jones' reading at Boston Court Performing Arts Center in Pasadena, CA, 3/9/09, as featured on www.Poetry.la
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