Maddox, Everette
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Fuller Name
- Everette Hawthorne
Variants
- Maddox, Rhett
Additional Information
Birth Date
- 1944
Death Date
- 1989-02-13
Has Affiliation
- Organization: Everette Maddox Memorial Prose & Poetry Reading
Birth Place
- Alabama
Birth Place
- Prattville Region (Ala.)
Associated Language
- English
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Sources
- found: Maddox, Everette. The Everette Maddox song book, 1982:t.p. (Everette Maddox)
- found: Maddox, Everette. Bar Scotch, c1988:t.p. (Everette Maddox) p. 4 of cover (b. 1944; resides in New Orleans)
- found: 64 parishes, viewed 31 May 2023:Everette Madox (Everette Madox; Everette Hawthorne Maddox; American poet; born in 1944 near Prattville, Alabama; bachelor's degree from University of Alabama; published his first work in The New Yorker in 1971; moved to New Orleans in 1975; writer in residence at Xavier University in New Orleans, where he taught for one year; Xavier University Press published his first collection of poetry in 1976, chapbook entitled The 13 Original Poems; then taught at University of New Orleans for 2 years; finally was hired as a teacher in the New Orleans Poetry in the Schools Program in 1980; most famously associated with Maple Leaf Bar, a drinking hole and music club in Riverbend neighborhood of Uptown New Orleans where he spent much of his time; Maddox was often referred to as the "Poet Laureate of Oak Street"; cofounded a weekly reading series at Maple Leaf, master of ceremonies for a decade, from 1979 until his death February 13, 1989, in Charity Hospital [New Orleans]; the first of its kind in New Orleans, the series hosted readings and book signings by local, regional, and national writers; weekly readings, now titled Everette Maddox Memorial Prose & Poetry Reading, remain a fixture of New Orleans literary scene; a portion of his ashes are buried in the bar's patio) - https://64parishes.org/entry/everette-maddox
- found: Wikipedia, 5 June 2023(Everette Maddox; Everette "Rhett" Maddox; co-founded (with Robert Stock and sculptor Franz Heldner) the longest-running poetry-reading series in the South at Maple Leaf Bar in New Orleans, Louisiana) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everette_Maddox
LC Classification
- PS3563.A33945
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Change Notes
- 1983-11-02: new
- 2023-06-13: revised
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