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 ...
. He earned undergraduate and doctoral degrees in history at
Harvard University
Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...
and
Duke University
Duke University is a Private university, private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity, North Carolina, Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1 ...
, respectively, before receiving an MFA in creative writing from the
University of Iowa
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.
He was visiting professor at
Kenyon College
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, and editor of ''Kenyon Review''.
He currently teaches at
Bucknell University
Bucknell University is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal-arts college in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1846 as the University at Lewisburg, it now consists of the College of Arts a ...
, where he 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.
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, formerly sometimes known as York Brethren or Yorkers, are a River Brethren denomination of Anabaptist Christianity with roots in the Radical Pietist movement. As their name indicates, they are Old Order Anabaptis ...
.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
* 2005
George Bogin Memorial Award
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* 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 ...