R.s. gwynn biography

American poet

For the English footballer, see Sam Gwynne.

Robert Samuel "Sam" Gwynn (born 1948, Eden, North Carolina) is an American poet and anthologist associated with New Formalism.^[1]

Life

Gwynn is married and lives in Beaumont, Texas.^[2] He graduated from Davidson College in 1969, where he won the Vereen Bell Award for creative writing twice,^[3] played varsity football,^[4] and was a member of the school's championship team on the General Electric College Bowl.^[5] He did graduate work at Middlebury College's Bread Loaf School of English and later earned an M.A.

and an M.F.A. from the University of Arkansas.^[6]

Poetry and career

Gwynn's first full-length book, The Drive-in, won the Breakthrough Award of the University of Missouri Press in 1986.^[7] He has received the Michael Braude Award for Light Verse of the American Academy of Arts and Letters,^[8] served as an original R.

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