George Barlow (American poet)

George Barlow
Born	1948 (age 76–77)
Education	California State University, East Bay University of Iowa
Occupation	Poet

George Barlow (born 1948) is an American poet. He graduated from California State University, East Bay, and from the University of Iowa with an M.A. in American Studies and a M.F.A. George Barlow currently teaches at Grinnell College. ^[1]

He has published in The Black Scholar , Caliban 2, River Styx, The Iowa Review , Antaeus, Callaloo , The Beloit Poetry Journal , ^[2] Nimrod, ^[3] The American Poetry Review, Yardbird Reader, Big Moon and Obsidian. ^[4]

He was on the nominating committee for the Iowa poet laureate. ^[5]

Awards

• Woodrow Wilson Fellowship
• Ford Foundation Fellowship
• 1980 National Poetry Series, for Gumbo

Works

• Gabriel. Broadside Press. 1974. ISBN   978-0-910296-92-2.
• Gumbo. Doubleday. 1981. ISBN   978-0-385-17529-6.

Editor

• About Time III: An Anthology of California Prison Writing, Grady Hillman, Maude Meehan, George Barlow eds.

Anthologies

• Arnold Rampersad; Hilary Herbold, eds. (2006). The Oxford Anthology of African American Poetry. Oxford University Press US. ISBN   978-0-19-512563-4.
• Noah Blaustein, ed. (2001). Motion: American Sports Poems. University of Iowa Press. ISBN   978-0-87745-755-8. ^[6]
• Clarence Major, ed. (1996). The Garden Thrives: Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry . HarperPerennial. ISBN   978-0-06-055364-7.
• Jerry Washington Ward, ed. (1997). Trouble the Water: 250 Years of African-American Poetry. Mentor. ISBN   978-0-451-62864-0.
• Michael Carey, ed. (1996). Voices on the Landscape: Contemporary Iowa Poets. Mid-Prairie Books. ISBN   978-0-931209-65-9.
• Keith Gilyard; Anissa Janine Wardi, eds. (2004). African American Literature. Pearson Longman. ISBN   978-0-321-11341-2.
• Ethelbert Miller, ed. (1999). In Search of Color Everywhere. Illustrator Terrance Cummings. Bt Bound. ISBN   978-0-613-03372-5.
• Al Young, ed. (1994). Color: A Sampling of Contemporary African-American Writing. San Francisco: The Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives, San Francisco State University.
• Michael S. Harper; Anthony Walton, eds. (February 1994). Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep: An Anthology of Poetry by African Americans Since 1945. Little, Brown & Company. ISBN   978-0-316-34710-5. ^[7]
• Yusef Komunyakaa; Sascha Feinstein, eds. (June 1991). The Jazz Poetry Anthology. Indiana University Press. ISBN   978-0-253-32163-3. ^[8]
• William H. Gass; Charles Simic, eds. (1985). The Best of Intro. Associated Writing Programs. ISBN   978-0-936266-06-0. ^[9]
• Jack Elliott Myers; Roger Weingarten, eds. (1984). New American Poets of the 80s . Wampeter Press. ISBN   978-0-931694-35-6.
• Quincy Troupe; Rainer Schulte, eds. (1975). Giant Talk: Voices of the Third World. Random House. ISBN   978-0-394-48800-4.
• Bruce Taylor, Kendall, ed. (January 1, 1974). Eating the Menu. Hunt Pub. Co. ISBN   978-0-8403-1056-9. ^[10]
• R. Baird Shuman (ed.). A Galaxy of Black Writing. Moore Publishing Company. ISBN   978-0-04-105300-5. ^[11]
• Arnold Adoff, ed. (1977). Celebrations: a new anthology of Black American poetry . Follett Pub. Co. ISBN   978-0-695-40699-8.

References

1. "Faculty Writers at Grinnell". Archived from the original on 2010-05-28. Retrieved 2010-03-28.
2. "BJP - Beloit Poetry Journal - Author Index". www.bpj.org. Archived from the original on 2005-12-03.
3. "Nimrod". 1975.
4. "Grinnell Faculty Page". Archived from the original on 2010-04-18. Retrieved 2009-09-23.
5. "Humanities Welcome". Archived from the original on 2009-02-02. Retrieved 2010-03-28.
6. Motion Archived 2010-06-21 at the Wayback Machine , University of Iowa Press.
7. "Online Bookstore: Books, NOOK ebooks, Music, Movies & Toys".
8. Jazz Poetry Anthology. June 1991.
9. "Best of Intro by William H Gass and Charles Simic".
10. Taylor, Bruce Edward (1974). Eating the Menu: A Contemporary American Poetry, 1970-1974. ISBN   0840310560.
11. "9780041053005 - Alibris".