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Everette Maddox

Everette Maddox was an American poet, born Oct. 9, 1944 Prattville, Ala., died Feb. 13 1989 at New Orleans, La. The author of several books of poetry, he also founded the Maple Leaf Bar Poetry Reading Series, the longest running poetry reading in the South [CITE].

Biography
William Hawthorne Maddox is listed as born variously as Montgomery, Ala and "outside Pratville, Ala." to Everette Hawthorne Maddox, Sr. and Dorothy Stuckey Maddox. He had one younger sibling, William Stuckey Maddox, an academic in political science. He graduated in June 1963 from Augusta County High School in Prattville, earning a City of Prattville scholarship to attend college.

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Education
He entered the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa Sept. 1963, and graduated with a B.A. in English with a minor in Latin in June 1967 Following his B.A. from the University of Alabama, Maddox began graduate studies in English at the University of Alabama under a National Defense Education Ac Fellowship, earning an M.A. in English in Aug. 1968. He began doctoral studies while employed as a Teaching Assistant in Sept. 1968, but abandoned those studies and was employed as a temporary Instructor at the University of Alabama English Department. In lieu of the doctoral program, Maddox began taking courses in the university's Master of Fine Arts Program.

Early Publications
In 1968, Maddox won the Hallmark Honor Prize of the Kansas State poetry contest. In the Fall of 1971, he published poems in The New Yorker, Kansas Quarterly and Western Humanities Review. In 1972 his poems were published in Shenandoah, kayak and Intro 4. In 1974 two poems including "Thirteen Ways of Being Looked at by a Possum" were published in The Paris Review. In 1975 he published as poem in the Carolina Quarterly.

Teaching Career
Maddox began his teaching career in 1970 when he abandoned his doctoral studies and was hired as a teaching assistant at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Ala., where in 1972 he organized a visiting reading series which brought poets Mark Strand, Michael Benedikt and Charles Simic to the university campus. In September 1975 he began work as a part-time tutor in the Writing Late of the University of Alabama English Department and ceased teaching in the department. In November 1974, he taught at the Lucille Sanders Elementary School in Fayetteville, N.c. under the Fayetteville Poets-in-the-Schools program. In September 1975, he was hired as Poet-in-Residence at Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans. In June 1976 he was let go from the Xavier University position, and in August 1976 began teaching as an Instructor in the University of New Orleans English Department. Let from from the U.N.O. position in 1978, after an itinerant period including six months in Mobile, Ala., he begins teaching in the New Orleans Poet-in-the-Schools program in the Fall of 1980, his last academic position. He begins part time work at the Maritime Museum in the International Trace Center Building, by the mid 1980s "homelessness and unemployment become permanent conditions." .

Writing Career
While employed at Xavier Universty, the Xavier University Press issues the chapbook The Thirteen Original Poems in 1976, it's title inspired by the U.S. Bicentennial CITE.

Books by Maddox
Maddox, Everette, The Thirteen Original Poems., New Orleans: Xavier University English Department,.

---, The Everette Maddox Song Book., New Orleans: The New Orleans Poetry Press, 1982.

---. Bar Scotch. New Orleans: Pirogue Publishing, 1988.

---, American Waste. Intro. by Ralph Adamo. New Orleans, Portals Press, 1993

---, Rette's Last Stand. Intro. by Rodney Jones. Mobile: The Tensaw Press, 2004.

Adamo, Ralph, Ed., .I hope it's not over and goodbye: Selected Poems of Everette Maddox UNO Press, University of New Orleans Publishing, University of New Orleans, New Orleans,.

Books Edited by Maddox
Cassin, Maxine, Yorke Corbin, and Everette Maddox, Eds. The Maple Leaf Rag: An Anthology of New Orleans Poetry. New Orleans: The New Orleans Poetry Journal Press, 1980.

Books About Maddox
Bauer, Grace and Julie Kane, Eds., Umpteen ways of Looking at a Possum: critical and creative response to Everette Maddox.New Orleans: Xavier Review Press, 2006.

Anthologies
Stokesbury, Leon, Ed. The Made Thing: An Anthology of Contemporary Southern Poetry PLACE; University of Arkansas Press, DATE (Contains the poems "Breakfast," "The Great Man's Death: An Anecdote, "Disaster Poem," and "1941."

Ploughshares Fall 1983, (Contains the poems "Cleaning the Cruiser" and "Of Rust.")

Disheroon-Green, Suzanne, Ed. Voices of the American South PLACE: Longman, 2005 (containts the poems “Cleaning the Cruiser" and “New Orleans.”

Plays about Everette Maddox
France, Bruce and Nick Slie, Catching Him In Pieces, produced by Mondo Bizarro, New Orleans, 2006.

Manuscript Collection
Williams Research Center of The Historic New Orleans Collection. 10 Chartres Street, New Orleans, LA 70130.

Xavier University Archives and Special Collections. Xavier University Library, Xavier University of Louisiana. 1 Drexel Drive, New Orleans, LA 70125.

Internet References
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:MarkAFolse/Everette_Maddox&action=edit&section=6 Stokesbury, Leon. Everette Maddox Biography, Undated. No citations.

Liebhaber, Karen Powers The Symbols of Death in Everette Maddox's Closing Time, originally appeared in Modern American Poetry, 2001. Link blocked by Wikipedia.

Dalton-Beninato, Of Muses, Maddox and The Goodbye Girl, Photo of Everette Maddox as depicted on a Mardi Gras Float in 2010.

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