Leon Stokesbury
Leon Stokesbury was an American poet.
Life
He graduated from the University of Arkansas with an MFA, and earned his Ph.D. at Florida State University. He taught creative writing at Georgia State University.Awards
- 1999 National Endowment for the Arts Grant
- 1998 Poets' Prize
- 1990 Robert Frost Fellowship in Poetry from the Breadloaf Writers Conference
- 1992 Distinguished Georgia Poet of the Year Award
- 1985 Porter Prize
Works
Anthologies
Editor
- 2nd edition.
- The Light the Dead See: The Selected Poems of Frank Stanford. Ed. Leon Stokesbury. University of Arkansas Press 1991.