{"id":769,"date":"2014-10-22T13:59:02","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T20:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=769"},"modified":"2017-05-29T11:19:26","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T18:19:26","slug":"bensko-john-1949","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=769","title":{"rendered":"BENSKO, JOHN, 1949-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writer; teacher of writing. Born&#8211; November 28, 1949, Birmingham. Parents&#8211; John Jr. and Patricia Blanton Bensko.\u00a0 Married&#8211; Rosemary Collins, May, 1980.\u00a0 Children&#8211;one.\u00a0 Married&#8211; Cary Holladay. \u00a0Education&#8211; University of Alabama, B.A., 1973, M.F.A., 1979;\u00a0 FSU, Ph.D., 1985. Taught on a temporary part-time basis at the University of Alabama, 1974-80; taught at Old Dominion University\u00a0 1980-1994; University of Memphis after 1994. Fulbright Professor at the University of Alicante, Spain. \u00a0Poems and critical works published in Black Warrior Review, Carolina Quarterly, New Orleans Review and Contemporary Literature in Birmingham. Member MLA, PEN.\u00a0 Winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition, 1982, for Green Soldiers; \u00a0the McLeod-Grobe Poetry Prize in 2000; and the Anita Clare Scharf Award for poetry, 2013.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Literature in Birmingham and files at Alabama Public Library Service; University of Memphis website.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Green Soldiers. New Haven; Yale University Press, 1981.<\/p>\n<p>The Iron City: Poems.\u00a0 Urbana:\u00a0 University of Illinois Press, 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Sea Dogs: Stories.\u00a0 St. Paul: Graywolf Press, 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Visitations: Poems.\u00a0 Tampa: University of Tampa, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The Waterman&#8217;s Children.\u00a0 Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Writer; teacher of writing. Born&#8211; November 28, 1949, Birmingham. Parents&#8211; John Jr. and Patricia Blanton Bensko.\u00a0 Married&#8211; Rosemary Collins, May, 1980.\u00a0 Children&#8211;one.\u00a0 Married&#8211; Cary Holladay. \u00a0Education&#8211; University of Alabama, B.A., 1973, M.F.A., 1979;\u00a0 FSU, Ph.D., 1985. Taught on a temporary part-time basis at the University of Alabama, 1974-80; taught at Old Dominion University\u00a0 1980-1994; [&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-769","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\/769","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=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6536,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions\/6536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}