G.C. Waldrep Biography
G.C. Waldrep (born 1968 South Boston, Virginia as George Calvin Waldrep III) is an American poet and historian.
Waldrep earned undergraduate and doctoral degrees in History at Harvard University and Duke University, respectively, before receiving an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa.
He was visiting professor at Kenyon College, and editor of Kenyon Review. He currently teaches at Bucknell University, where he directs the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets and edits the journal West Branch. He also serves as Editor-at-Large for The Kenyon Review.
His work has appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, Boston Review, Colorado Review, Gettysburg Review, New American Writing, American Letters & Commentary, Seneca Review,Tin House, Quarterly West, Octopus, Harper's, Gulf Coast and elsewhere.
In 2010 he was appointed to be the final judge of the Akron Poetry Prize.
Half a toy being better than
none. A forest being better than none.
An argot, a pidgin. And the miraculous brevity
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Things start with fire, or else with music.
Some of us are at the restaurant where the bird got in,
and some of us are elsewhere, and anyway
that was another occasion, some other evening.
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There is not so much water here as pollen.
A lesson in obedience, in Victorian industry:
I am busy, busy therefore the child will live.
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To be the son of a poet is to lust in a great circle. Places both of you will
visit, for instance—Iowa cornfield, New England farm midwinter.
A mill-race. Plaque for the bell factory hidden now
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The earth has a taste for us, in its unknowing
appetite there yet resides a hunger, incompletion
that draws all life to its dark self. What, then,
shall we say of the flesh's own desire, distal
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