Rodney Jones (poet)

Rodney Jones (1950-) is an American poet and professor of English at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Jones was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the winner of the 1989 National Book Critics Circle Award. His other honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Peter I.B. Lavan Award from the Academy of American Poets, the Jean Stein Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, a Southeast Booksellers Association Award, and a Harper Lee Award.

Bibliography

• The Story They Told Us of Light (1980)
• The Unborn (1985)
• Transparent Gestures (1989)
• Apocalyptic Narrative (1993)
• Things That Happen Once (1996)
• Elegy for the Southern Drawl (1999)
• Kingdom of the Instant: Poems (2004)
• Salvation Blues (2006) (winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, shortlisted for the 2007 International Griffin Poetry Prize)
• Imaginary Logic (2011)

External links

• Griffin Poetry Prize biography
• Griffin Poetry Prize reading, including video clip
• Profile on Blackbird online journal Web site
• Announcement of Rodney Jones winning prestigious 2007 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award in Southern Illinois University Carbondale News
• The winter of his content - interview with Rodney Jones in seMissiourian.com News
• Rodney Jones, "An Absence I Know I Won't Reclaim". Southern Spaces, 22 January 2009.
• Video of Rodney Jones' reading at Boston Court Performing Arts Center in Pasadena, CA, 3/9/09, as featured on www.Poetry.la
• Poetry Foundation biography