George Barlow (American poet)

George Barlow (born 1948) 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 a M.F.A. George Barlow currently teaches at Grinnell College.

He has published in The Black Scholar, Caliban 2, River Styx, The Iowa Review, Antaeus, Callaloo, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Nimrod, The American Poetry Review, Yardbird Reader, Big Moon and Obsidian.

He was on the nominating committee for the Iowa poet laureate.

Awards

 * Woodrow Wilson Fellowship
 * Ford Foundation Fellowship
 * 1980 National Poetry Series, for Gumbo

Editor

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