Leon Stokesbury (1945 Oklahoma City – November 13, 2018) 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 "Unsent Letter to My Brother in His Pain", Good Times Santa Cruz
Anthologies
Editor
2nd edition. The Light the Dead See: The Selected Poems of Frank Stanford. Ed. Leon Stokesbury. University of Arkansas Press 1991.
References
External links "Dictionary of Literary Biography on Leon Stokesbury"