GWYNN, R(obert) S(amuel) 1948-

PERSONAL: Born May 13, 1948, in Leaksville, NC; son of Dallas Edmund (a sales manager) and Thelma (Howe) Gwynn; married Faye La Prade, June, 1969 (marriage ended, May, 1977); married Donna Kay Skaggs Simon, June 1, 1977; children: (second marriage) William Tyree. Ethnicity: "White." Education: Davidson College, B.A., 1969; University of Arkansas, M.A., M.F.A., 1973. Politics: Democrat. Religion: Methodist. Hobbies and other interests: Fishing, hunting, cooking.

ADDRESSES: Home—985 Norwood Dr., Beaumont, TX 77706. Office—Department of English and Foreign Languages, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX 77710; fax: 409-861-4223. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, instructor in English, 1973-76; Lamar University, Beaumont, TX, University Professor of English, 1976—. Gives readings from his works throughout the United States.

MEMBER: Associated Writing Programs, Poetry Society of America, Conference of College Teachers of English, South Central Modern Language Association, Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers, Texas Institute of Letters.

WRITINGS:

Bearing and Distance (poetry chapbook), Cedar Rock (New Braunfels, TX), 1977.

The Narcissiad (poetry chapbook), Cedar Rock (New Braunfels, TX), 1981.

The Drive-In (poetry), University of Missouri Press (Columbia, MO), 1986.

(With others) Texas Poets in Concert: A Quartet, University of North Texas Press (Denton, TX), 1990.

The Area Code of God (poetry chapbook), Aralia, 1994.

No Word of Farewell: Selected Poems, 1970-2000, Story Line, 2001.

If My Song (poetry chapbook), Lisle, 1999.

EDITOR

(And contributor) Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 105: American Poets since World War II, Second Series, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1991.

(And contributor) Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 120: American Poets since World War II, Third Series, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1992.

Drama: A HarperCollins Pocket Anthology, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1993, 2nd edition published as Drama: A Pocket Anthology, Penguin (New York, NY), 2002.

Fiction: A HarperCollins Pocket Anthology, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1993, 2nd edition published as Fiction: A Longman Pocket Anthology, Longman (New York, NY), 1997, 3rd edition published as Fiction: A Pocket Anthology, Penguin (New York, NY), 2002.

Poetry: A HarperCollins Pocket Anthology, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1993, 2nd edition (also contributor) published as Poetry: A Longman Pocket Anthology, Longman (New York, NY), 1997, 3rd edition published as Poetry: A Pocket Anthology, Penguin (New York, NY), 2002.

The Advocates of Poetry: A Reader of American Poet-Critics of the Modern Era, University of Arkansas Press (Fayetteville, AR), 1996.

New Expansive Poetry: Theory, Criticism, History, Story Line, 1999.

(With Dana Gioia) The Longman Anthology of Short Fiction, with instructor's manual, Longman (New York, NY), 2001, compact edition, 2001.

Literature: A Pocket Anthology, Penguin (New York, NY), 2002.

(With Dana Gioia) The Longman Masters of Short Fiction, with instructor's manual, Longman (New York, NY), 2002.

Contributor to books, including Miller Williams and the Poetry of the Particular, edited by Michael Burns, University of Missouri Press (Columbia, MO), 1991; Rebel Angels: Twenty-five Poets of the New Formalism, Story Line, 1996; The Store of Joys, Blair (Winston-Salem, NC), 1997; Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry, McGraw-Hill (New York, NY), 1999; and An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of Their Art, University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor, MI), 2002. Contributor of more than seventy articles, poems, and reviews to periodicals, including Sparrow, Tar River Poetry, Sewanee Review, Hudson Review, Poetry Northwest, Hudson Review, River Styx, Ogalala Review, Poetry Miscellany, and Texas Monthly.

WORK IN PROGRESS: Editing Contemporary American Poetry: A Pocket Anthology, with April Linder, for Penguin (New York, NY); poetry.