Architect
of the department's studio/academic Master of Fine Arts degree
in creative writing, established in 1989, Dr. Stokesbury also
teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in poetry writing,
the form and theory of poetry, modern poetry, and contemporary
poetry. His poems have appeared in many journals, including
The
Partisan Review,
The Kenyon Review,
The New Yorker,
The Georgia Review, and
The New England Review,
and they have been reprinted in more than three dozen anthologies
and college textbooks. His first book of poems,
Often in Different
Landscapes, was chosen by Richard Eberhart as co-winner of
the first Associated Writing Programs Poetry Competition (1975).
His most recent book of poems is
Autumn Rhythm: New and Selected
Poems, published in 1996. Recently, he edited a second edition
of
The Made Thing: An Anthology of Contemporary Southern Poetry,
published in 2000.
Dr. Stokesbury
has received numerous grants and awards for his poetry, including
the Porter Fund Award for Literary Excellence (1985), the Robert
Frost Fellowship in Poetry from the Breadloaf Writers Conference
(1990), and the Distinguished Georgia Poet of the Year Award (1992).
Autumn Rhythm: New and Selected Poems was awarded The Poet's
Prize for 1996 as the best book of verse published by an American
citizen during that year.
A popular
public performer, Leon Stokesbury has given poetry readings at
more than one hundred colleges and universities.
Ed.
The Made Thing: An Anthology of Contemporary Southern Poetry. 2nd edition. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2000.
Autumn Rhythm: New and Selected Poems. University of Arkansas Press, 1996.
The Drifting Away. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1986.
Often in Different Landscapes. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1976.
