Poet; university professor.\u00a0 Born–April 22, 1951, Kileen, Texas (grew up in Alabama). Married– Erin McGraw.\u00a0 Education– Huntingdon College, B.A., 1974;\u00a0 University of Alabama, M.A., 1976; M.F.A. University of Iowa, 1983. Additional study at University of Syracuse, 1976-78. Teacher at Carver Elementary School, Montgomery, 1973-74; instructor in composition, Auburn University at Montgomery, 1978-81;\u00a0 at Baylor University, 1984-85; University of Cincinnati, 1985-\u00a0 ; Humanities Distinguished Professor of English,\u00a0Ohio State University.\u00a0 Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry, Stanford University; Alfred Hodder Fellow at Princeton, 1989-1990. Received many awards for his writing, including the Academy of American Poets Award, 1984; Alabama Library Association Award, 1987; Witter Bynner Foundation Prize for Poetry, 1988; Frederick Bock Award, 1997, and others. Taft Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award, University of Cincinnati, 1994.<\/p>\n
Source;<\/strong><\/p>\n Contemporary authors online.<\/p>\n Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n After the Lost War:\u00a0 A Narrative. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988.<\/p>\n American Rendering:\u00a0 New and Selected Poems.\u00a0 Boston:\u00a0 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.<\/p>\n Babylon in a Jar. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.<\/p>\n A Clown at Midnight. Boston:\u00a0 Mariner Books:\u00a0 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.<\/p>\n Diary of a Poem.\u00a0 Ann Arbor:\u00a0 University of Michigan Press, 2011.<\/p>\n Ecstatic in the Poison:New Poems.\u00a0 Woodstock:\u00a0 Overlook Press, 2003.<\/p>\n The Glass Anvil. Ann Arbor:\u00a0 University of Michigan Press, 1997.<\/p>\n The Glass Hammer:\u00a0 A Southern Childhood.\u00a0 Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994.<\/p>\n The Joker:\u00a0 A Memoir. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2013.<\/p>\n The Never-Ending:\u00a0 New Poems.\u00a0 Boston:\u00a0 Houghton Mifflin, 1991.<\/p>\n Saints and Strangers. Boston:\u00a0 Houghton Mifflin, 1985.<\/p>\n Joint_Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n Shut Up, You’re Fine! Poems for Very, Very Bad Children.\u00a0 Woodstock: Overlook Press, 2009.<\/p>\n Editor;<\/strong><\/p>\n James Agee: Selected Poems.\u00a0 New York: Library of America, 2008.<\/p>\n Joint_Editor;<\/strong><\/p>\n The Waltz He was Born For:\u00a0 Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press, 2002.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Poet; university professor.\u00a0 Born–April 22, 1951, Kileen, Texas (grew up in Alabama). Married– Erin McGraw.\u00a0 Education– Huntingdon College, B.A., 1974;\u00a0 University of Alabama, M.A., 1976; M.F.A. University of Iowa, 1983. Additional study at University of Syracuse, 1976-78. Teacher at Carver Elementary School, Montgomery, 1973-74; instructor in composition, Auburn University at Montgomery, 1978-81;\u00a0 at Baylor University, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-g-i"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8993","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=8993"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9000,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8993\/revisions\/9000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}