Leon Stokesbury

Leon Stokesbury (1945 Oklahoma City – November 13, 2018 ) was an American poet.

Life
He graduated from the University of Arkansas with an MFA, and earned his Ph.D. at Florida State University. He taught creative writing at Georgia State University.

Awards

 * 1999 National Endowment for the Arts Grant
 * 1998 Poets' Prize
 * 1990 Robert Frost Fellowship in Poetry from the Breadloaf Writers Conference
 * 1992 Distinguished Georgia Poet of the Year Award
 * 1985 Porter Prize

Works

 * "Unsent Letter to My Brother in His Pain", Good Times Santa Cruz

Editor

 * 2nd edition.
 * The Light the Dead See: The Selected Poems of Frank Stanford. Ed. Leon Stokesbury. University of Arkansas Press 1991.
 * The Light the Dead See: The Selected Poems of Frank Stanford. Ed. Leon Stokesbury. University of Arkansas Press 1991.