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Bobby Caudle Rogers

University Professor of English and Writer in Residence

About

Bobby C. Rogers is the author of three books: Paper Anniversary (Pitt, 2010), winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, and Social History (LSU, 2016) and Shift Work (LSU, 2022), both in the Southern Messenger Poets series. He has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and been named a Witter Bynner Fellow at the Library of Congress. His poems appear often in such journals as The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, Ploughshares, and Image. His prose has been published in From Line Break to Fast Break: Poets on the Art of Basketball (Michigan State, 2012) and Afield: American Writers on Bird Dogs (Skyhorse, 2010). His critical writing includes essay/chapters in casebooks on the poetry of Denise Levertov and May Sarton, and the Denise Levertov entry in the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and the Arts (Oxford, 2015). In February 2012 he was featured as artist of the month on the Image magazine website. His poems have been anthologized in The Southern Poetry Anthology, Vol. VI: Tennessee (Texas Review Press, 2013), The Everyman’s Library Poems of the American South (Knopf, 2014), and Gracious: Contemporary Poems in the Twenty-First Century South (Texas Tech, 2020).

Education

  • M.F.A., University of Virginia

  • B.A., University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Scholarship

Books

Articles

  • Elizabeth Patton, Wife of Davy Crockett (forthcoming) (2011)

    Shenandoah

  • Regarding Change (forthcoming poem) (2011)

    Greensboro Review

  • Spring Recital: Beethoven Club, Memphis, Tenn. (forthcoming) (2011)

    32 Poems

  • Farm Portrait (poem) (2010)

    Grist

  • Philosophy (poem) (2010)

    Grist

  • Poet’s Model (poem) (2010)

    The Marlboro Review

  • Regarding Symbols (poem) (2010)

    Bellingham Review

  • Ornithology (poem) (2010)

    Isotope: A Journal of Literary Nature and Science Writing

  • Pastoral (poem) (2009)

    Basilica Review

  • The Principal’s Son (poem) (2009)

    The Southern Review

  • How I’m Telling It (poem) (2009)

    Columbia Poetry Review

  • Jerry Lee Lewis Plays, “That Lucky Old Sun’ at Bad Bob’s Vapors Club, Memphis, Tennessee” (2009)

    Agni Online

  • Home Body (poem) (2008)

    Connecticut Review

  • The Creative Process (poem) (2008)

    Sou'wester

  • Daylight (poem) (2005)

    River City

  • Meat and Three (poem) (2005)

    Greensboro Review

  • Rest (poem) (2005)

    River City

  • Winter (poem) (2005)

    Image

  • Night Air (poem) (2005)

    Meridian

Awards

  • 2009 Starrett Prize for ‘From Life’ (2010)

    Will be published by Pittsburgh University Press

  • Fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (2005)