Early life

Alfred Corn was born in Bainbridge, Georgia

Bainbridge, Georgia

As of the census of 2000, there were 11,722 people, 4,444 households, and 3,013 families residing in the city. The population density was 255.6/km² . There were 5,051 housing units at an average density of 285.2 per square mile...

 in 1943 and raised in Valdosta, Georgia

Valdosta, Georgia

Valdosta is the county seat of Lowndes County, Georgia, United States. It is the principal city of the Valdosta Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 Census, the city had a total population of 54,518. The Valdosta metropolitan area, according to the 2010 estimate, has a population of 139,588...

.

Corn graduated from Emory University

Emory University

Emory University is a private research university in metropolitan Atlanta, located in the Druid Hills section of unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The university was founded as Emory College in 1836 in Oxford, Georgia by a small group of Methodists and was named in honor of...

 in 1965 with a B.A. in French literature. Corn earned an M.A. in French literature at Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

 in 1967.

Corn travelled to France on a Fulbright Scholarship where he met Ann Jones, whom he would later marry.
After he and Ann Jones divorced, he was partnered with the architect Walter Brown in the years 1971-1976,and then with J.D. McClatchy

J.D. McClatchy

J. D. "Sandy" McClatchy is an American poet and literary critic. He is editor of the Yale Review and president of The American Academy of Arts and Letters.-Life:...

 from 1977 until 1989.

Career

In 1976, Corn published his first book of poetry All Roads at Once.

Corn was awarded the 1982 Levinson Prize by Poetry Magazine.

Corn received an Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1983 and a Guggenheim Fellowship

Guggenheim Fellowship

Guggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation makes...

 in 1986. In 1987, he was awarded a Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets.

In 1997 Corn wrote the novel, Part of His Story.

As of 2008, Corn has written nine books of poetry, one novel, and one book of essays.

Works

• All Roads at Once (1976) Viking Press ISBN 0-670-11410-3
• A Call in the Midst of the Crowd: Poems (1978) Viking Press ISBN 0-670-19979-6
• The Various Light (1980) Viking Press ISBN 0-670-74322-4
• Notes from a Child of Paradise (1984) ISBN 0-670-51707-0
• The West Door: Poems (1988) Viking Press ISBN 0-670-81956-5
• The Metamorphoses of Metaphor: Essays in Poetry and Fiction (1987) Viking Press ISBN 0-670-81471-7
• Autobiographies: Poems (1992) Viking Press ISBN 0-670-84602-3
• Part of His Story: A Novel (1997) Mid-List Press ISBN 0-922811-29-6
• Present (1997) Counterpoint ISBN 1-887178-31-7
• The Poem's Heartbeat: A Manual of Prosody (1997) Story Line Press ISBN 1-885266-40-5, (2008) Copper Canyon Press
  Copper Canyon Press
  Copper Canyon Press is an independent, non-profit small press, specializing in the publication of poetry and located in the picturesque town of Port Townsend, Washington. Since 1972, the Press has published poetry exclusively and has established an international reputation for its commitment to...
  
   ISBN 978-1-55659-281-2
• Stake: Selected Poems, 1972-1992 (1999) Counterpoint ISBN 1-58243-024-1
• Contradictions: Poems (2002) Copper Canyon Press ISBN 1-55659-185-3

External links

• Alfred Corn's weblog
• Alfred Corn at Academy of American Poets
• Alfred Corn at The New Georgia Encyclopedia
• Alfred Corn (1943-) at Poetry Foundation