This page celebrates leaders of the Georgia (State) Poetry Society, with their term in office. *deceased
Georgia Poetry Society Presidents, spring 2013
L-R: Ron Self, Emily Blake Vail, John K. Ottley Jr., Ethelene Dyer Jones, Rosemary Mauldin, Sandy Hokanson
Edward Davin Vickers* (1979 – 1981)
Author: Echo in the Woods
Dr. Bettie Sellers* (1981 – 1983)
Author: Spring Onions and Cornbread; Morning of the Red-Tailed Hawk; Liza’s Monday and Other Poems; Wild Ginger
Dorothy Williamson Worth* (1983 – 1985)
Author: Desert Places
Dr. E. Jerome Zeller* (1985 – 1987)
Author:
Calvin Atwood* (1987 – 1988)
Author: A Squadron of Roses; Isle of You
Dr. Frank McKemie* (1988 – 1990)
Author:
Ethelene Dyer Jones (1990 – 1992)*
Author: The Singing in the Wood
Georgia T. Henry-Pearson (1992 – 1993)
Author:
B. I. Garland* (1993 – 1995)
Author:
Margery V. Carlson* (1995 – 1997)
Author: Message from the Blueberries and Other Poems
Emily Blake Vail* (1997 – 1999)
Author: Poems from Time Past: Crossroads, Byways, Destinations; Poems:…this fragile earth…
Herbert W. Denmark* (1999 – 2001)
Author: In Metaphysical Splendor
John K. Ottley, Jr. (2001 – 2003)
Author: The Hope of Upstream Water; The Seventh Deadliest Fear; That Nature Might Stand Up
Rosemary Mauldin (2003 – 2004)*
Steven Owen Shields (2004 – 2007)
Author: Daimonion Sonata (2005)
Ron W. Self *(2007 – 2009)
Author: Rich Man’s Son; Requiem for the Unconvinced; Art of War
Keith Badowski (2009 – 2011)
Author: My Wife Warned Me and I Did It Anyway
Robert S. King (2011)
Author: Messages from Multiverses; Developing a Photograph of God; Diary of the Last Person on Earth; One Man’s Profit; The Gravedigger’s Roots; The Hunted River; Traveler’s Tale; Dream of the Electric Eel; When Stars fall Down as Snow
Steven Owen Shields (interim, Oct 2011- Jan 2012)
Author: Daimonion Sonata (2005)
Sandy Hokanson (2012 – 2014)
Author: Snow on Stone; South of the Ordinary
Ira Harrison* (2014 – 2016)
Author: Poetry and Prevention; B.A.A.D. Beautiful African-American Daughters: Poems of Tribute
Michael Diebert (2016 – 2018)
Author: Life Outside the Set (2016)
Miriam C. Jacobs (2018 – 2020)
Author:
Steven Owen Shields (2020 – 2022)
Author: Daimonion Sonata (2005); Valentines for Many People (2012); Creation Story (2019); Random Acts of Childhood (2020).
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