G. C. Waldrep
{{short description|American poet and historian (born 1968)}}
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G. C. Waldrep (born George Calvin Waldrep III; 1968) is an American poet and historian.
Biography
Waldrep was born in South Boston, Virginia. He earned undergraduate and doctoral degrees in history at Harvard University and Duke University, respectively, before receiving an MFA in creative writing from the University of Iowa.{{cite web|url=http://boaeditions.org/authors/waldrep.htm|title=Could Not Find - Authors - BOA Editions|publisher=boaeditions.org|access-date=2015-04-28|archive-date=2015-09-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925194941/http://www.boaeditions.org/authors/waldrep.htm|url-status=dead}}
He was visiting professor at Kenyon College,{{cite web|url=http://arts.endow.gov/features/writers/writersCMS/writer.php?id=07_40|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080917094150/http://arts.endow.gov/features/writers/writersCMS/writer.php?id=07_40 |archive-date=2008-09-17 |url-status=dead|title=NEA Writers' Corner: G.C. Waldrep|author=National Endowment for the Arts|access-date=2015-04-28}} and editor of Kenyon Review.
He currently teaches at Bucknell University,{{cite web|url=http://www.bucknell.edu/x37428.xml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080404233745/http://www.bucknell.edu/x37428.xml|archive-date=2008-04-04|url-status=dead|title=G. C. Waldrep || Bucknell University|access-date=2015-04-28|df=}} where he edits the journal West Branch. He also serves as Editor-at-Large for The Kenyon Review.{{cite web|url=http://www.kenyonreview.org/about/masthead/|title=Masthead|publisher=kenyonreview.org|access-date=2015-04-28}}
His work has appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, Boston Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Colorado Review, Gettysburg Review, New American Writing,{{cite book|title=New American Writing|date=2006|issue=24|publisher=Oink! Press|issn=0893-7842|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OuhZAAAAMAAJ|access-date=2015-04-28}} American Letters & Commentary, Seneca Review,{{cite book|title=The Seneca Review|author1=Hobart Student Association|author2=Hobart College|author3=William Smith College|author4=William Smith Student Association|date=2005|issue=v. 35-36|publisher=Hobart Student Association|issn=0037-2145|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VfJZAAAAMAAJ|access-date=2015-04-28}} Tin House, Quarterly West, Octopus, Harper's, Gulf Coast{{cite web|url=http://www.gulfcoastmag.org/index.php?n=2&si=47&s=2932 |title=Tea Ceremony |author=G.C. Waldrep |publisher=Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts |access-date=2012-06-27}} and elsewhere.
He wrote an article about spinoff groups from the Old Order Anabaptist groups that no other scholar had covered and was thus widely received.[https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1G1-218190812/the-new-order-amish-and-para-amish-groups-spiritual The New Order Amish and Para-Amish Groups: Spiritual Renewal Within Tradition], in The Mennonite Quarterly Review 3 (2008), pages 396–426.
In 2010 he was appointed to be the final judge of the Akron Poetry Prize.{{cite web|url=http://www.uakron.edu/uapress/akron-poetry-prize/poetryprizewinner.dot|title=The University of Akron : 2014 Akron Poetry Prize Winner|publisher=uakron.edu|access-date=2015-04-28}}
In 2012, he co-edited the poetry anthology The Arcadia Project.{{cite web | url=https://ahsahtapress.org/book/joshua-corey-arcadia/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190301013414/https://ahsahtapress.org/book/joshua-corey-arcadia/ | url-status=usurped | archive-date=March 1, 2019 | title=The Arcadia Project}}
He is a member of the Old Order River Brethren.G.C. Waldrep: The New Order Amish And Para-Amish Groups: Spiritual Renewal Within Tradition, in The Mennonite Quarterly Review 3 (2008), page 417.
Awards
- Academy of American Poets
- North Carolina Arts Council
- The PIP Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative Poetry in English
- 2001 Illinois Prize for history
- 2003 Colorado Prize for Poetry, for Goldbeater's Skin
- 2005 Campbell Corner Poetry Prize
- 2005 George Bogin Memorial Award
- 2006 Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, Poetry Society of America
- 2007 NEA grant
- 2008 Dorset Prize, for Archicembalo
Bibliography
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- {{cite book| title=Goldbeater's skin: poems| publisher=Center for Literary Pub.| year=2003| isbn=978-1-885635-06-8 }}
- {{cite book| title=The Batteries: poems| publisher=New Michigan Press| year=2006| isbn=978-0-9762092-5-6 }}
- {{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PBy7RbhERk0C&q=G.C.+Waldrep&pg=PT1| title=Disclamor: poems| publisher=BOA Editions, Ltd.| year=2007| isbn=978-1-929918-97-3 }}
- {{cite book| title=Archicembalo: poems| publisher=Tupelo Press| year=2009| isbn=978-1-932195-74-3 }}
- {{cite book| title=Your Father on the Train of Ghosts: poems| publisher=BOA Editions, Ltd.| year=2011| isbn=978-1-934414-48-4
}} (collaboration with John Gallaher)
- {{cite book| title=Testament: poem| publisher=BOA Editions, Ltd.| year=2015| isbn=978-1938160639}}
- {{cite book| title=feast gently: poems| publisher=Tupelo Press.| year=2015| isbn=978-1938160639}}
- {{cite book| title=The Earliest Witnesses: poems| publisher=Tupelo Press.| year=2021| isbn=978-1-800170360}}
- The Opening Ritual: poems. Tupelo Press. 2024 [https://www.tupelopress.org/product/the-opening-ritual/ 978-1-961209-14-5]
- [http://www.typomag.com/issue03/waldrep.html "III. Palm Beach, Florida, 1987"; "IV. Santa Monica, California, 1988"; "XXII. Snow Hill, Maryland, 1989"; "XXIII. Charleston, South Carolina, 1989"; "XLI. Isle of Palms, South Carolina, 1989", Typo Magazine'']
- [http://www.memorious.org/?id=260 "How Water Is Manufactured", Memorious 11]
- [http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v2n2/poetry/waldrep_gc/canticle.htm "Canticle for the Second Sunday in Lent", Blackbird, Fall 2003]
- [http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v2n2/poetry/waldrep_gc/begins.htm "What Begins Bitterly Becomes Another Love Poem", Blackbird, Fall 2003]
- [http://poems.com/poem.php?date=14466 "Apologia Pro Vita Tua", Poetry Daily]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090825125439/http://arts.endow.gov/features/writers/writersCMS/writer.php?id=07_40 "Blazon", NEA]
- {{cite book |last=Waldrep |first=G. C. |editor-last=Henderson |editor-first=Bill |title=The Pushcart Prize XXXVII : best of the small presses 2013 |publisher=Pushcart Press |date=2013 |pages=579–580 |chapter=Internal monument}}
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- {{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZP0lUDUERHgC&q=G.C.+Waldrep&pg=PT1| title=Southern workers and the search for community: Spartanburg County, South Carolina| publisher=University of Illinois Press| year=2000| isbn=978-0-252-06901-7 }}
- The New Order Amish and Para-Amish Groups: Spiritual Renewal Within Tradition, in The Mennonite Quarterly Review 3 (2008), pages 396–426.
- {{cite book| title=Homage to Paul Celan| publisher=Marick Press | year=2012| isbn=978-0-9779703-4-6 }}
References
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External links
- [https://www.bucknell.edu/fac-staff/gc-waldrep Bucknell University]
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