Alfred Corn
| Alfred Corn | |
|---|---|
| Born | Alfred DeWitt Corn III August 14, 1943 Bainbridge, Georgia |
| Occupation | Poet, Writer, Critic |
| Genre | Poetry, Essays |
| Notable awards |
Guggenheim Fellowship Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets |
| Spouse | Ann Jones (divorced) |
| Partner | Walter Brown, J.D. McClatchy |
Alfred Corn (born August 14, 1943) is an American poet and essayist.
Alfred Corn was born in Bainbridge, Georgia in 1943 and raised in Valdosta, Georgia.
Corn graduated from Emory University in 1965 with a B.A. in French literature. Corn earned an M.A. in French literature at Columbia University in 1967.
Corn travelled to France to study on a Fulbright Scholarship where he met Ann Jones, whom he would later marry. After he and Ann Jones divorced, he was partnered with the architect Walter Brown in the years 1971–1976,and then with J.D. McClatchy from 1977 until 1989.
His first book of poems, All Roads at Once, appeared in 1976, followed by A Call in the Midst of the Crowd (1978), The Various Light (1980), Notes from a Child of Paradise (1984), The West Door (1988), Autobiographies (1992). His seventh book of poems, titled Present, appeared in 1997, along with a novel titled 'Part of His Story'., and a study of prosody, The Poem’s Heartbeat (Story Line Press, 1997; Copper Canyon Press, 2008). Stake: Selected Poems, 1972–1992, appeared in 1999, followed by Contradictions in 2002. He has also published a collection of critical essays titled The Metamorphoses of Metaphor (1988) and a work of art criticism, Aaron Rose Photographs (Abrams Books, 2001). In January 2013, Tables, a volume of poems, was published by Press53. In April 2014, Unions, a volume of poems, was published by Barrow Street Press. In December 2014, Miranda's Book, a novel, was published by Eyewear Publishing in London, United Kingdom.
Corn was awarded the 1982 Levinson Prize by Poetry Magazine.
Corn received an Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1983 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1986. In 1987, he was awarded a Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets.
Additional fellowships and prizes awarded for his poetry include the National Endowment for the Arts, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a residency at The Bellagio Center for the Rockefeller Foundation.
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