title: Leon Stokesbury
text: # Leon Stokesbury
  
  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
  * Autumn Rhythm: New and Selected Poems. University of Arkansas Press. 1996. ISBN 978-1-55728-438-9.
  * The Drifting Away. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press. 1986. ISBN 978-0-938626-51-0.
  * The royal nonesuch. Anhinga Press. 1984. ISBN 978-0-938078-17-3.
  * Chance of showers. Florida State University. 1984.
  * Often in Different Landscapes. Austin: University of Texas Press. 1976. ISBN 9780292760042.
  * You are Here: Poems New and Old. University of Arkansas Press. 2016.
  * The Drifting Away of All We Once Held Essential. Trilobite Press. 1979.
  
  ### Anthologies
  
  * James Tate; David Lehman, eds. (1997). "Evening's End". The Best American Poetry 1997. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-684-81452-0.
  * Dave Smith; David Bottoms, eds. (1985). The Morrow anthology of younger American poets. Quill. ISBN 978-0-688-03450-4.
  
  ### Editor
  
  * Leon Stokesbury, ed. (1990). Articles of war: a collection of American poetry about World War II. University of Arkansas Press. ISBN 978-1-55728-149-4.
  * The Made Thing: An Anthology of Contemporary Southern Poetry. University of Arkansas Press. 1999. ISBN 978-1-55728-579-9. Leon Stokesbury. 2nd edition.
  * The Light the Dead See: The Selected Poems of Frank Stanford. Ed. Leon Stokesbury. University of Arkansas Press 1991.
  