Alfred Corn

Infobox Writer
name = Alfred Corn


imagesize =
caption =
pseudonym =
birthname = Alfred DeWitt Corn III
birthdate =
birthplace = Bainbridge, Georgia
deathdate =
deathplace =
occupation = Poet, Critic
nationality =
period =
genre = Poetry, Essays
subject =
movement =
notableworks =
spouse = Ann Jones (divorced)
partner = Walter Brown, J.D. McClatchy
children =
relatives =
influences =
influenced =
awards = Guggenheim Fellowship
Fellowship of the Academy of American Poetscite news |title=272 TO SHARE $5.9 MILLION IN GUGGENHEIM AWARDS |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DEFDF1530F930A25757C0A960948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2 |work=The New York Times |date=April 13 1986 |accessdate=2008-06-03] cite web |url=http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/1103 |title=Alfred Corn |publisher=Academy of American Poets |accessdate=2008-06-03]


website =
portaldisp =

Alfred Corn (born 1943) is an American poet and essayist.

Early life

Alfred Corn was born in Bainbridge, Georgia in 1943 and raised in Valdosta, Georgia.

Corn graduated from Emory University in 1965 with a B.A. in French literature. Corn earned an M.A. in French literature at Columbia University in 1967.

Corn travelled to France on a Fulbright Scholarship where he met Ann Jones, whom he would later marry. [cite book |editor=Colby, Vineta |title=World Authors, 1985-1990 |year=1995 |publisher=H. W. Wilson |isbn=0824208757 |pages=pp. 166-168] After he and Ann Jones divorced, he was partnered with the architect Walter Brown in the years 1971-1976,and then with J.D. McClatchy from 1977 until 1989.

Career

In 1976, Corn published his first book of poetry "All Roads at Once".

Corn was awarded the 1982 Levinson Prize by "Poetry Magazine". [cite web |url=http://www.poetrymagazine.org/about/prizes.html |title=Prizes |author=Poetry Magazine |accessdate=2008-06-03]

Corn received an Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1983 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1986. In 1987, he was awarded a Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets.

In 1997 Corn wrote the novel, "Part of His Story". [cite news |last=Hower |first=Edward |title=The Plague Years |url=http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/04/27/reviews/970427.27howert.html |work=The New York Times |date=April 27 1997 |accessdate=2008-06-03]

As of 2008, Corn has written nine books of poetry, one novel, and one book of essays.

Works

*"All Roads at Once" (1976) Viking Press ISBN 0670114103
*"A Call in the Midst of the Crowd: Poems" (1978) Viking Press ISBN 0670199796
*"The Various Light" (1980) Viking Press ISBN 0670743224
*"Notes from a Child of Paradise" (1984) ISBN 0670517070
*"The West Door: Poems" (1988) Viking Press ISBN 0670819565
*"The Metamorphoses of Metaphor: Essays in Poetry and Fiction" (1987) Viking Press ISBN 0670814717
*"Autobiographies: Poems" (1992) Viking Press ISBN 0670846023
*"Part of His Story: A Novel" (1997) Mid-List Press ISBN 0922811296
*"Present" (1997) Counterpoint ISBN 1887178317
*"The Poem's Heartbeat: A Manual of Prosody" (1997) Story Line Press ISBN 1885266405
*"Stake: Selected Poems, 1972-1992" (1999) Counterpoint ISBN 1582430241
*"Contradictions: Poems" (2002) Copper Canyon Press ISBN 1556591853

References

External links

* [http://alfredcornsweblog.blogspot.com/ Alfred Corn's weblog]
* [http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/1103 Alfred Corn] at Academy of American Poets
* [http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1255 Alfred Corn] at The New Georgia Encyclopedia
* [http://poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=1447 Alfred Corn (1943-)] at Poetry Foundation