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#471: Welborn Victor Jenkins
There is no marker at the grave of Welborn Victor Jenkins, in Atlanta.
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#472: Ernest Abner Hartsock
Atlanta, Georgia. Ernest Abner Hartsock has a marvelous poem on his gravestone:
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#473: Celebrating Eugene Walter in Mobile
What a fine, fun, fantastic day was had in Mobile, Alabama, as Sue Walker and literary friends organized a reading and celebration at the grave of Eugene Walter.
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#475: Poet & Painter Stan Rice
The large mausoleum of Poet and Painter, Stan Rice, in New Orleans, has several of his poems written on the side:
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#476: Everette Maddox Buried in a Bar
Everette Maddox is buried in the back courtyard of the Maple Leaf Bar, where he spent many drunken days and nights writing his poems on napkins.
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#477: Turner Cassity
Turner Cassity's grave was very difficult to find for some reason! Maybe I needed the exercise in the 99-degree heat?
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#478: The Amazing Margaret Walker
I had a fabulous time at the grave of the amazing African-American poet, Margaret Walker.
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#479: Hubert Creekmore
Hubert Creekmore was a Classics scholar and translator. His grave is in Jackson, Mississippi. Circled what I thought was a funny passage:
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Complete Pictures Now Online
Pictures from all the graves visited on the Graves of Southern Poets Grand Tour are now viewable online at our Flickr Collection. The last blog was grave #483, but there are new pictures going up to...
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