August 1, 1937 - November 30, 2020
American poet
Author of ten collections of poetry including "Night Music" (for which he was the winner of the International Small Press Book Award and the Georgia Poet of the Year Award in 1976), "Port Authority: Selected Poems" (for which he was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1976) and "Western Flyers" (for which he was the co-winner of the Panhandler Chapbook Series in 1990)
He founded the Atlanta Poets Workshop in 1972
Born Jasper Walter Griffin
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