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Anthony Watkins [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
Tallahassee, FL
Florida US
Email: 
anthonyleewatkins@gmail.com
Bio: 

Anthony Watkins, publisher, poet, painter, and educator, lives in North Florida with his wife Suzanne and their dog.  A community teaching assistant at Penn, he gives readings and discusses poetry, as subject matter, and as life.  His work has appeared in Penumbra, Poetry Super Highway, Mockingheart Review, Stella Showcase and San Pedro River Review.

Publications he has published include Scene-Arts of the Treasure Coast, Abundance- A Harvest of Life, Literature and the Arts, Better Than Starbucks. his current projects include Poetry, Prisons, & Newsprint and Prizines.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Favorite authors: 
William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Graham Greene, Eudora Welty, Mark Twain, Gloria Naylor, Gertrude Stein, Emily Dickinson, Rae Armantrout, William Carlos Williams, and a few hundred more.
Born in: 
Jackson, MS
Mississippi
Raised in: 
Shorter, AL
Alabama
Website: 
http://www.goodreads.com/AnthonyUplandpo… [2]
Prizes won: 

June 2013, December 2014 and April 2016 Goodreads Newsletter Poetry Contest

 

For some reason, P&W does not recognize this publisher, so info about Written in Darkness, (2019) book of poetry, published by Cajun Mutt Press, here:

https://www.amazon.com/Written-Darkness-... [3]


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Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/anthony_watkins [2] http://www.goodreads.com/AnthonyUplandpoetWatkins [3] https://www.amazon.com/Written-Darkness-Anthony-Watkins/dp/0578734214/