Everette maddox biography for kids

American poet

Everette "Rhett" Maddox (–)^[1] was an American poet who in co-founded (with Robert Stock and sculptor Franz Heldner) the longest-running poetry-reading series in the South at the Maple Leaf Bar in New Orleans, Louisiana.^[2]

Biography

Maddox was born near Prattville, Alabama.

He studied at the University of Alabama, where he did his doctoral work but did not graduate.^[3]

He moved to New Orleans; beginning in , he taught at Xavier University but lost that position and later became homeless.

Also in , he became an associate editor for Louis Gallo's Burataria Review, then started organizing and MCing at the Maple Leaf Bar.^[4]

Maddox's work was published in The New Yorker and The Paris Review.

He published two books of poetry; a third was published posthumously.^[5] Other poetry was included in Umpteen Ways of Looking at a Possum: Critical and Creative Responses to Everette Maddox, edited b