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G. C. Waldrep

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G. C. Waldrep
BornGeorge Calvin Waldrep III
1968
South Boston, Virginia
NationalityAmerican
EducationHarvard University;
Duke University;
University of Iowa
GenrePoetry

G. C. Waldrep(bornGeorge Calvin Waldrep III;1968) is an Americanpoetand historian.

Biography[edit]

Waldrep was born inSouth Boston, Virginia.He earned undergraduate and doctoral degrees in history atHarvard UniversityandDuke University,respectively, before receiving an MFA in creative writing from theUniversity of Iowa.[1]

He was visiting professor atKenyon College,[2]and editor ofKenyon Review. He currently teaches atBucknell University,[3]where he edits the journalWest Branch.[3]He also serves as Editor-at-Large forThe Kenyon Review.[4]

His work has appeared inPoetry,Ploughshares,Boston Review,Beloit Poetry Journal,Colorado Review,Gettysburg Review,New American Writing,[5]American Letters & Commentary,Seneca Review,[6]Tin House,Quarterly West,Octopus,Harper's,Gulf Coast[7]and elsewhere.

He wrote an article about spinoff groups from the Old Order Anabaptist groups that no other scholar had covered and was thus widely received.[8]

In 2010 he was appointed to be the final judge of theAkron Poetry Prize.[9]

In 2012, he co-edited the poetry anthology The Arcadia Project.[10]

He is a member of theOld Order River Brethren.[11]

Awards[edit]

  • Academy of American Poets
  • North Carolina Arts Council
  • The PIP Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative Poetry in English
  • 2001 Illinois Prize for history
  • 2003 Colorado Prize for Poetry, forGoldbeater's Skin
  • 2005 Campbell Corner Poetry Prize
  • 2005George Bogin Memorial Award
  • 2006 Alice Fay di Castagnola Award,Poetry Society of America
  • 2007NEAgrant[2]
  • 2008 Dorset Prize, forArchicembalo

Bibliography[edit]

  • Goldbeater's skin: poems.Center for Literary Pub. 2003.ISBN978-1-885635-06-8.
  • The Batteries: poems.New Michigan Press. 2006.ISBN978-0-9762092-5-6.
  • Disclamor: poems.BOA Editions, Ltd. 2007.ISBN978-1-929918-97-3.
  • Archicembalo: poems.Tupelo Press. 2009.ISBN978-1-932195-74-3.
  • Your Father on the Train of Ghosts: poems.BOA Editions, Ltd. 2011.ISBN978-1-934414-48-4.(collaboration with John Gallaher)
  • Testament: poem.BOA Editions, Ltd. 2015.ISBN978-1938160639.
  • feast gently: poems.Tupelo Press. 2015.ISBN978-1938160639.
  • The Earliest Witnesses: poems.Tupelo Press. 2021.ISBN978-1-800170360.

Non-Fiction[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^"Could Not Find - Authors - BOA Editions".boaeditions.org. Archived fromthe originalon 2015-09-25.Retrieved2015-04-28.
  2. ^abNational Endowment for the Arts."NEA Writers' Corner: G.C. Waldrep".Archived fromthe originalon 2008-09-17.Retrieved2015-04-28.
  3. ^ab"G. C. Waldrep || Bucknell University".Archived fromthe originalon 2008-04-04.Retrieved2015-04-28.
  4. ^"Masthead".kenyonreview.org.Retrieved2015-04-28.
  5. ^New American Writing.Oink! Press. 2006.ISSN0893-7842.Retrieved2015-04-28.
  6. ^Hobart Student Association; Hobart College; William Smith College; William Smith Student Association (2005).The Seneca Review.Hobart Student Association.ISSN0037-2145.Retrieved2015-04-28.
  7. ^G.C. Waldrep."Tea Ceremony".Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts.Retrieved2012-06-27.
  8. ^The New Order Amish and Para-Amish Groups: Spiritual Renewal Within Tradition,inThe Mennonite Quarterly Review3 (2008), pages 396–426.
  9. ^"The University of Akron: 2014 Akron Poetry Prize Winner".uakron.edu.Retrieved2015-04-28.
  10. ^"The Arcadia Project".Archived from the original on March 1, 2019.{{cite web}}:CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  11. ^G.C. Waldrep:The New Order Amish And Para-Amish Groups: Spiritual Renewal Within Tradition,in The Mennonite Quarterly Review 3 (2008), page 417.

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