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Copyright 2006-
Vernon Fowlkes, Jr. 's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including The Southern Review, Birmingham Arts Journal, The Texas Observer, Negative Capability, Willow Springs, Elk River Review, JAMA, Literary Mobile, Whatever Remembers Us, and others.
Born in Mobile, Alabama, where he lives today, he received a B.A. in Creative Writing at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, in 1977, working with William "Kit" Hathaway, Ray Beard, Warren Eyster, and Jim Bennett. (He also likes to point out that, during that same era, Walker Percy was teaching a novel writing course down the hall, but he was too intimidated to drop by, much less enroll in the class.)
In the early 1990's, he worked in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at the University
of South Alabama, studying with Sue Walker, Alabama's current Poet Laureate. With
Walker, he is a member of the local poetry troupe The Canebrake Poets, which also
includes Mobile poets Carol Case, Keri Coumanis, Diane Garden, Celia Lewis, and,
as Critic-