Anthony Butts
Life
He graduated from Wayne State University with a bachelor's degree, from Western Michigan University,{{Cite web|url=http://www.wmich.edu/wmu/news/2004/0404/0304-357.html|title = WMU News - Alumnus Anthony Butts earns prestigious writing award}} with an MFA, and University of Missouri with a PhD.http://arc.psu.edu/databases/pennsylvania-black-writers/the-writers/anthony-butts/life-and-work{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
He taught at the University of Dayton, as well as Carnegie Mellon University.{{Cite web|url=http://www.pw.org/content/anthony_butts_1|title = Anthony Butts| date=12 February 1999 }}{{Cite web|url=http://www.cmu.edu/cmnews/011205/011205_voices.html|title=Carnegie Mellon News Online Edition: December 5, 2001}}
He was married to journalist Leah Samuel (b. 1970) from 2004 to 2009.{{Citation needed|date=March 2022}}
Award
Works
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080705024427/http://www.poetrysociety.org/winners-ninetyfour_poems.html "The Nut Gatherers", Poetry Society of American]
- {{cite book| title=The Golden Underground | publisher=Wayne State University Press| year=2009| isbn=978-0-8143-3389-1 }}
- {{cite book| title=Little Low Heaven | publisher=New Issues/Western Michigan University| year=2003| isbn=978-1-930974-26-5 }}
- The Next Generation (CMU Press, 2000)
- {{cite book| title=Evolution | publisher=Sutton Hoo Press| year=1998 }}
- {{cite book| title=Fifth Season | publisher=New Issues Press, Western Michigan University| year=1997| isbn=978-0-932826-53-4 }}
- "Prayer" in Lines + Stars literary journal http://www.linesandstars.com/spring-2014/anthony-butts/prayer/
=Anthologies=
- {{cite book| title=American Poetry Now: Pitt poetry series anthology| editor=Ed Ochester| publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press| year=2007| isbn=978-0-8229-4310-5 }}
- {{cite book| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b8OknN4kt0wC&q=Anthony+Butts&pg=PA79| chapter=Detroit, City of Straits| title=Abandon Automobile: Detroit city poetry 2001|editor=Melba Joyce Boyd |editor-link=Melba Joyce Boyd|editor2=M. L. Liebler| publisher=Wayne State University Press| year=2001| isbn=978-0-8143-2810-1 }}
- {{cite book| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HHHlYP_u6aUC&q=Anthony+Butts&pg=PA26| chapter=Angels| title=New Poems from the Third Coast: contemporary Michigan poetry|editor=Michael Delp|editor-link=Michael Delp|editor2=Conrad Hilberry|editor2-link=Conrad Hilberry|editor3=Josie Kearns| publisher=Wayne State University Press| year=2000| isbn=978-0-8143-2797-5 }}
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100628155228/http://www.absolutewrite.com/specialty_writing/anthony_butts.htm "Healing Words: An Interview with Poet Anthony Butts", Absolute write]
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Category:20th-century American poets
Category:20th-century American male writers