Claude Wilkinson Explained

Claude Wilkinson
Birth Date:	17 December 1959
Birth Place:	Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
Alma Mater:	University of Mississippi University of Memphis
Genre:	Poetry
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Claude Wilkinson (born Memphis, Tennessee) is an American poet and artist.

Life

He graduated from the University of Mississippi and University of Memphis. He was writer-in-residence at the University of Mississippi.^{[1] [2]}

His work has appeared in Atlanta Review, Blue Mesa Review, California State Poetry Quarterly, Chattahoochee Review, The Oxford American, Poem, South Dakota Review, The Southern Review and Xavier Review. His paintings have been exhibited at University of Mississippi.^[3]

He lives in Nesbit, Mississippi.^[4]

Awards

• 2000 Whiting Award
• 1999 Walter E. Dakin Fellowship in Poetry from the Sewanee Writers' Conference
• 1997 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award ^[5]

Works

• Book: Reading the Earth: Poems. Michigan State University Press. 1998. 978-0-87013-481-4. registration.
• Book: Joy in the Morning . LSU Press. 2004. 978-0-8071-3006-3 .
• Marvelous Light

Anthologies

• Book: Beyond the frontier: African-American poetry for the 21st century. E. Ethelbert Miller. Black Classic Press. 2002. 978-1-57478-017-8 .
• Book: Say This of Horses. https://books.google.com/books?id=22limLYRLjMC&q=Say%20This%20of%20Horses&pg=PT90. White Horses . University of Iowa Press. 2007. 978-1-58729-526-3 . C. E. Greer . Jenny Kander .
• Evensong: contemporary American poets on spirituality (Bottom Dog Press, 2006)
• Fresh Water (Pudding House Publications, 2002)

External links

• "Claude Wilkinson", Mississippi Writers & Musicians
• Profile at The Whiting Foundation

Notes and References

1. Web site: Center for the Study of Southern Culture.
2. Web site: February 24th, 2005 - Watermelon Slim - Claude Wilkinson - John Sinclair . 2010-01-07 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20061119153235/http://www.thackermountain.com/schedule/show.php?date=1109221200 . 2006-11-19 .
3. Web site: Center for the Study of Southern Culture.
4. Web site: Claude Wilkinson. 21 March 2000 .
5. Web site: Home . lotuspress.org.