{"id":5819,"date":"2016-09-12T13:48:31","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T20:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=5819"},"modified":"2016-09-16T09:02:14","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T16:02:14","slug":"jones-rodney-1950","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=5819","title":{"rendered":"JONES, RODNEY, 1950-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Poet; university professor of English.\u00a0 Born&#8211; February 11, 1950, Falkville, Alabama. Parents&#8211; E. Lavon and Wilda Owen Jones.\u00a0 Married&#8211; Virginia Kremza, 1972 (divorced 1979); married Gloria Nixon de Zepeda, 1981.\u00a0 Children&#8211; two.\u00a0 Education: University of Alabama,B.A., 1971; University of North Carolina&#8211;Greensboro, M. F. A., 1973.\u00a0 Writer-in-residence, Virginia Intermont College, 1978-84; professor of English, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1984&#8211; .\u00a0 Contributed poems to journals and anthologies. Member of advisory panel on literature, Illinois Arts Council.\u00a0 Associated Writing Programs Award Series, 1980; Lavan Younger Poets Award, 1986; Jean Stein Prize, 1989; National Book Critics Circle Award, 1989; Kingley Tufts Poetry Award, 2007.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors online.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Apocalyptic Narrative, and Other Poems.\u00a0 Boston:\u00a0 Houghton Mifflin, 1993.<\/p>\n<p>Elegy for the Southern Drawl.\u00a0 Boston:\u00a0 Houghton Mifflin, 1999.<\/p>\n<p>Going Ahead, Looking Back.\u00a0 Knoxville, TN: Southbound Books, 1977.<\/p>\n<p>Imaginary Logic.\u00a0 Houghton Mifflin, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Kingdom of the Instant.\u00a0 Boston:\u00a0 Houghton Mifflin, 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Salvation Blues:\u00a0 One Hundred Poems, 1985-2005.\u00a0 Boston:\u00a0 Houghton Mifflin, 2006.<\/p>\n<p>The Story they Told us of Light.\u00a0 University of Alabama Press, 1980.<\/p>\n<p>Things that Happen Once: New Poems.\u00a0 Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996.<\/p>\n<p>Transparent Gestures.\u00a0 Boston:\u00a0 Houghton Mifflin, 1989.<\/p>\n<p>The Unborn.\u00a0 Boston:\u00a0 Atlantic Monthly Press, 1985<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography; Poet; university professor of English.\u00a0 Born&#8211; February 11, 1950, Falkville, Alabama. Parents&#8211; E. Lavon and Wilda Owen Jones.\u00a0 Married&#8211; Virginia Kremza, 1972 (divorced 1979); married Gloria Nixon de Zepeda, 1981.\u00a0 Children&#8211; two.\u00a0 Education: University of Alabama,B.A., 1971; University of North Carolina&#8211;Greensboro, M. F. A., 1973.\u00a0 Writer-in-residence, Virginia Intermont College, 1978-84; professor of English, Southern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5819"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5839,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5819\/revisions\/5839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}