G. C. Waldrep (born George Calvin Waldrep III; 1968) is an American
poet
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and historian.
Biography
Waldrep was born in
South Boston, Virginia
South Boston, formerly Boyd's Ferry, is a town in Halifax County, Virginia, United States. The population was 8,142 at the 2010 census, down from 8,491 at the 2000 census. It is the most populous town in Halifax County.
History
On December ...
. He earned undergraduate and doctoral degrees in history at
Harvard University
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and
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...
, respectively, before receiving an MFA in creative writing from the
University of Iowa
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.
He was visiting professor at
Kenyon College
Kenyon College is a private liberal arts college in Gambier, Ohio. It was founded in 1824 by Philander Chase. Kenyon College is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission.
Kenyon has 1,708 undergraduates enrolled. Its 1,000-acre campus is se ...
, and editor of ''Kenyon Review''.
He currently teaches at
Bucknell University
Bucknell University is a private liberal arts college in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1846 as the University at Lewisburg, it now consists of the College of Arts and Sciences, Freeman College of Management, and the College of Engineering. ...
, 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'', ''
Beloit Poetry Journal
The ''Beloit Poetry Journal'' is an American poetry magazine established in 1950 at Beloit College. ''American Letters & Commentary'', ''Seneca Review'', ''Tin House'', ''Quarterly West'', ''Octopus'', ''Harper's'', ''Gulf Coast'' and elsewhere.
He wrote an article about spinoff groups from the Old Order Anabaptist groups that no other scholar had covered and was thus widely received.
In 2010 he was appointed to be the final judge of the
Akron Poetry Prize
The Akron Poetry Prize is an annual contest held by The University of Akron Press. The competition is open to all poets writing in English. The winning poet receives an honorarium of $1,000 and publication of his or her book in the Akron Series in ...
.
In 2012, he co-edited the poetry anthology The Arcadia Project.
He is a member of the
Old Order River Brethren
The Old Order River Brethren are a River Brethren denomination of Anabaptist Christianity with roots in the Radical Pietist movement. As their name indicates, they are Old Order Anabaptists.
History
The denomination began about 1778 in Pennsy ...
.G.C. Waldrep: ''The New Order Amish And Para-Amish Groups: Spiritual Renewal Within Tradition'', in The Mennonite Quarterly Review 3 (2008), page 417.
Awards
* Academy of American Poets
* North Carolina Arts Council
* The PIP Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative Poetry in English
* 2001 Illinois Prize for history
* 2003 Colorado Prize for Poetry, for ''Goldbeater's Skin''
* 2005 Campbell Corner Poetry Prize
* 2006 Alice Fay di Castagnola Award,
Poetry Society of America
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* 2007 NEA grant
* 2008 Dorset Prize, for ''Archicembalo''
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* ''The New Order Amish and Para-Amish Groups: Spiritual Renewal Within Tradition'', in
The Mennonite Quarterly Review
''The Mennonite Quarterly Review'' is an American interdisciplinary review journal, devoted to Anabaptist and Mennonite history, theology, and contemporary issues.
History, circulation and operations
Published continuously since its conception ...