Rodney Jones

Rodney Jones 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)

External links

* [http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/shortlist_2007.php?t=5 Griffin Poetry Prize biography, including audio and video clips]
* [http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v4n1/poetry/jones_r/index.htm Profile on Blackbird online journal Web site]
* [http://news.siu.edu/news/February07/020907sm7029.jsp Announcement of Rodney Jones winning prestigious 2007 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award in "Southern Illinois University Carbondale News"]
* [http://www.semissourian.com/story/1190039.html The winter of his content - interview with Rodney Jones in "seMissiourian.com News"]