{"id":777,"date":"2012-10-02T08:50:03","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T15:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=777"},"modified":"2012-10-02T08:50:03","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T15:50:03","slug":"beyer-richard-george-1940","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=777","title":{"rendered":"BEYER, RICHARD GEORGE, 1940-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Businessman, computer programmer, and information technology manager, post-secondary instructor, poet, photographer, and publisher.\u00a0 Born&#8211;  August 12, 1940, Long Island, NY.\u00a0\u00a0Parents&#8211; Ralph Chester and Madeline Siebert Beyer.\u00a0\u00a0 Married&#8211;  Carolyn Kracke.  Children&#8211;  Two.  Education&#8211; NY State College of Forestry at Syracuse, Florence State College, Employed- National Floor Products, Florence, Alabama, 1962-1968; Reynolds Metals Company, Listerhill, AL, 1968-69; National Floor Products, Florence, AL, 1969-96;\u00a0Federal Express Corporation, Memphis, TN, 1997-2002.\u00a0 Published over a hundred poems in over fifty poetry journals and literary magazines. Editor, Cotton Boll\/ Atlanta Review; Negative Capability; Elk River Review.\u00a0Founding president, Alabama State Poetry Society, 1968-1970; Treasurer and president of the Alabama State Poetry Society;\u00a0President, \u00a0Alabama Writers  Conclave, 1979-1980; Vice President of the National Federation of State Poetry Societies, 1970-72.\u00a0 Received the President&#8217;s Award from the Alabama State Poetry Society, 1974; Poet of the Year Award from the Alabama State Poetry Society, 1978; Poetry Book of the Year Award for SCROD I, Alabama State Poetry Society, 1984; Special Appreciation Award from the Alabama State Poetry Society, 1998, on the Society&#8217;s 30th Anniversary; &#8220;The flower you planted bloomed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Personalities of the South, 1972.; Who&#8217;s Who in Poetry, 1972-73; Richard Beyer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Homely Muse;  Selected Poems, 1962-1972.   Florence, Ala.;  Pinpoint Press, 1973.<\/p>\n<p>Profit and Loss, The Pseudo Press, Tuscumbia, AL, 1995.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alabama Poets, A Contemporary Anthology.\u00a0 Livingston University Press, Livingston, AL, 1990.<\/p>\n<p>Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry, 1981.\u00a0 Beverly Hills, CA:\u00a0 Monitor Book Company.<\/p>\n<p>Life on the Line; Selections on Words and Healing.\u00a0 Mobile; Negative Capability Press, 1992.<\/p>\n<p>SCROD I.\u00a0 Florence, AL:\u00a0 The Pauper&#8217;s Press, 1984.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever Remembers Us.\u00a0 Mobile:\u00a0 Negative Capability Press, 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Businessman, computer programmer, and information technology manager, post-secondary instructor, poet, photographer, and publisher.\u00a0 Born&#8211; August 12, 1940, Long Island, NY.\u00a0\u00a0Parents&#8211; Ralph Chester and Madeline Siebert Beyer.\u00a0\u00a0 Married&#8211; Carolyn Kracke. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; NY State College of Forestry at Syracuse, Florence State College, Employed- National Floor Products, Florence, Alabama, 1962-1968; Reynolds Metals Company, Listerhill, AL, [&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-777","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\/777","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=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5051,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions\/5051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}