Leon Stokesbury

Leon Stokesbury (1945 Oklahoma City) is 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.

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

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.
• 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

• "Evening's End". The Best American Poetry 1997. Simon and Schuster. 1997. ISBN 978-0-684-81452-0. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |editors= ignored (|editor= suggested) (help)
• The Morrow anthology of younger American poets. Quill. 1985. ISBN 978-0-688-03450-4. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |editors= ignored (|editor= suggested) (help)

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. Leon Stokesbury. 2nd edition.
• The Light the Dead See: The Selected Poems of Frank Stanford. Ed. Leon Stokesbury. University of Arkansas Press 1991.

External links

• "Dictionary of Literary Biography on Leon Stokesbury"