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Brooks Haxton was born on 1 December, 1950 in Greenville, Mississippi, US, is an American poet and translator (born 1950). Discover Brooks Haxton's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 73 years old?

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Occupation Author poet professor
Age 73 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 1 December 1950
Birthday 1 December
Birthplace Greenville, Mississippi, US
Nationality United States

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1919

His parents, Kenneth Haxton (1919–2002) and Josephine Ayres Haxton (1921–2012), were both writers, although Kenneth Haxton was primarily known as a musician and composer.

Josephine Haxton, a prominent southern fiction writer, used the pen name Ellen Douglas.

Brooks Haxton has received awards, fellowships, and grants of support for original poetry, translation, and scriptwriting from the NEA, NEH, Guggenheim Foundation, and other institutions.

Haxton has taught poetry writing and literature courses for thirty years at several schools, including Syracuse University, Warren Wilson College, and Sarah Lawrence College.

1950

Brooks Haxton (born December 1, 1950) is an American poet and translator.

His publications include nine books of original poems and four books of translations from the German, the French, and ancient Greek.

1968

Haxton grew up in Greenville, Mississippi, and graduated from Greenville High School in 1968.

1972

He then attended Beloit College in Wisconsin, graduating with a BA in English literature and composition in 1972.

1981

He earned an M.A. in creative writing from Syracuse University in 1981.

1983

They married on June 5, 1983.

They have one son and twin daughters.

1990

On November 14, 1990, Haxton was one of nine members of the eleven-member literary panel of the National Endowment for the Arts who resigned to protest an alleged attempt by Congress to restrict freedom of artistic expression in the endowment's 1991 budget.

The resigning members viewed Congress's restriction of awards based on "general standards of decency" as a curb on freedom of speech.

1993

He has taught creative writing at Syracuse University since 1993, and he has been a member of the Warren Wilson College faculty since 1990, teaching in the low-residency MFA program for writers.

His poems have appeared in numerous magazines and journals, including the Paris Review, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, the Kenyon Review, Poetry, and Beloit Poetry Journal.

1994

Haxton was the screenwriter for the documentary film "Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage" (1994), which appeared in the PBS series American Masters, season 9, episode 2.

2011

In 2011 Haxton presented the Winslow Lecture at Hamilton College under the title “Candor and Wisdom: the Poetry of Early Classical Greece.” In 2013, he received the Hanes Award for Poetry from the Fellowship of Southern Writers, an organization that recognizes and encourages excellence in Southern literature.

The award recognizes a distinguished body of work by a poet in mid-career.

Haxton lives in Syracuse, New York, with his wife, Frances Haxton.

2014

In 2014 he published Fading Hearts on the River, a book of nonfiction about his son's professional poker career.