George Barlow (American poet)

George Barlow 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 an 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 9780910296922. 
• Gumbo. Doubleday. 1981. ISBN 9780385175296. 

Editor

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

Anthologies

• Arnold Rampersad, Hilary Herbold, ed (2006). The Oxford Anthology of African American Poetry. Oxford University Press US. ISBN 9780195125634. http://books.google.com/books?id=y0Gy4NIaHJAC&pg=PP16&lpg=PP16&dq=George+Barlow+(American+poet)&source=bl&ots=m6bgyQjOdB&sig=kb2dWwtcmcSibFG_bSZ8B1bMJOc&hl=en&ei=Com5SvmYGcHhlAeakKAC&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5#v=onepage&q=George%20Barlow%20(American%20poet)&f=false. 
• Motion: American Sports Poems, Edited Noah Blaustein, 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 9780060553647. 
• Jerry Washington Ward, ed (1997). Trouble the Water: 250 Years of African-American Poetry. Mentor. ISBN 9780451628640. 
• Michael Carey, ed (1996). Voices on the Landscape: Contemporary Iowa Poets. Mid-Prairie Books. ISBN 9780931209659. 
• Keith Gilyard, Anissa Janine Wardi, ed (2004). African American Literature. Pearson Longman. ISBN 9780321113412. 
• Ethelbert Miller, ed (1999). In Search of Color Everywhere. Illustrator Terrance Cummings. Bt Bound. ISBN 9780613033725. 
• Color: A Sampling of Contemporary African -American Writing, Editor Al Young. San Francisco: The Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives, San Francisco State University 1994.
• Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep: An Anthology of Poetry by African Americans Since 1945, Editors Michael S. Harper, Anthony Walton, February 1994, Little, Brown & Company, ISBN 978-0-316-34710-5 ^[7]
• The Jazz Poetry Anthology, Editors Yusef Komunyakaa, Sascha Feinstein, Indiana University Press, June 1991, ISBN 978-0-253-32163-3 ^[8]
• The Best of Intro, Editors William H Gass and Charles Simic, Associated Writing Programs, ISBN 978-0-936266-06-0 ^[9]
• Jack Elliott Myers Jack Elliott Myers, Roger Weingarten, ed (1984). New American Poets of the 80s. Wampeter Press. ISBN 9780931694356. 
• Quincy Troupe, Rainer Schulte, ed (1975). Giant Talk: Voices of the Third World. Random House. ISBN 9780394488004. 
• Eating the Menu, Editor Bruce Taylor, Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co, January 1, 1974, ISBN 978-0-8403-1056-9 ^[10]
• A Galaxy of Black Writing, Editor R. Baird Shuman, 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 9780695406998. 

References