David Bottoms

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Atlanta

David Bottoms is the author of eight books of poetry, two novels, and a book of essays and interviews, most recently We Almost Disappear. Among his awards are the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets, the Frederick Bock Prize and the Levinson Prize, both from Poetry magazine, an Ingram Merrill Award, an Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. The recipient of a 2011 Governor’s Award in the Humanities, sponsored by the Georgia Humanities Council, David Bottoms served for twelve years as Poet Laureate of Georgia and currently lives in Atlanta, where he holds the Amos Distinguished Chair in English Letters at Georgia State University. Read more about him at  http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/david-bottoms.

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