{"id":729,"date":"2014-04-21T09:23:36","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T16:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=729"},"modified":"2016-05-20T10:57:52","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T17:57:52","slug":"barrax-gerald-william-1933","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=729","title":{"rendered":"BARRAX, GERALD WILLIAM, 1933-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Poet; teacher of creative writing. Born&#8211; June 21, 1933, Attalla; moved to Pittsburgh,Pa as a child. \u00a0Parents&#8211;Aaron and Dorthera (Hedrick) Barrax. Married&#8211;Geneva Catherine Lucy, 1954.\u00a0 Children&#8211;three.\u00a0 Married Joan Dellimore. Children&#8211;two.\u00a0 Education&#8211; Duquesne University, B.A., 1963; University of Pittsburgh, M.A., 1969; attended the University of North Carolina.\u00a0U.S. Air Force, 1953-57. \u00a0U.S. Post\u00a0Office, Pittsburgh, Pa., clerk and carrier, 1958-68; North Carolina Central University, instructor, 1969-70;\u00a0 North Carolina State University, teacher of creative writing, Department of English, 1970-1997. Editor of Obsidian, a journal of African-American poetry and criticism, 1985-1996.\u00a0 Published in many journals and anthologies. \u00a0Awarded the Gold Medal Award, Catholic Poetry Society; Broadside Press Award for Poetry, 1973; Callaloo Creative Writing Award for Nonfiction Prose, 1983; the Sam Regan Award for the Contributions to the Fine Arts in North Carolina, 1991; Raleigh Medal for Extraordinary Achievement in the Arts, 1993; nominated for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Elected to the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame, 2006.\u00a0 Awarded status of professor emeritus on his retirement at NC State, 1997.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Black American Writers Past and Present; Contemporary Authors online; encyclopedia.com<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Another Kind of Rain. Pittsburgh; University of Pittsburgh Press, 1970.<\/p>\n<p>An Audience of One. Athens, Ga.; University of Georgia Press, 1980.<\/p>\n<p>Death of Animals and Lesser Gods.\u00a0 University of Kentucky Press, 1984.<\/p>\n<p>From a Person Sitting in Darkness:\u00a0 New and Selected Poems.\u00a0 Louisiana State University Press, 1998.<\/p>\n<p>Leaning on the Sun; Poems. Fayetteville, Ark.; University of Arkansas Press, 1992.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Poet; teacher of creative writing. Born&#8211; June 21, 1933, Attalla; moved to Pittsburgh,Pa as a child. \u00a0Parents&#8211;Aaron and Dorthera (Hedrick) Barrax. Married&#8211;Geneva Catherine Lucy, 1954.\u00a0 Children&#8211;three.\u00a0 Married Joan Dellimore. Children&#8211;two.\u00a0 Education&#8211; Duquesne University, B.A., 1963; University of Pittsburgh, M.A., 1969; attended the University of North Carolina.\u00a0U.S. Air Force, 1953-57. \u00a0U.S. Post\u00a0Office, Pittsburgh, Pa., clerk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5525,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions\/5525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}