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GREENSBORO, N.C. 鈥� L. Wayne Johns, a professor of English at 每日大赛官网, has won honorable mention for the 2019 Brockman-Campbell Award for his first full-length poetry collection, 鈥淎ntipsalm.鈥�

The award has been given annually since 1977 by the N.C. Poetry Society for the best book of poetry by a North Carolina native or current resident. Previous winners include N.C. Poets Laureate Fred Chappell and Kathryn Stripling Byer.

Johns also was a finalist in the 2019 Randall Jarrell Poetry Contest, sponsored by the N.C. Writers鈥� Network. Award recipients from both contests will read from their work Sept. 14 at the Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities in Southern Pines.

鈥淎ntipsalm,鈥� which features poems of love and longing, 鈥渋s as real a love story as you鈥檙e going to find,鈥� said reviewer Cate Marvin, author of 鈥淥racle.鈥� 鈥淚 am so haunted by the beauty of these poems, my hair stands on end: 鈥楢ntipsalm鈥� pulls the ghosts from out the walls.鈥�

This year鈥檚 Brockman-Campbell Award contest was judged by Michael Waters, an award-winning poet and editor who teaches at Monmouth and Drew universities in New Jersey.

Johns holds a B.A. from St. Andrew鈥檚 Presbyterian College, an M.F.A. from Georgia State University, and a Ph.D. from Florida State University. He joined the faculty in 2007.

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Founded in 1838 and located in downtown Greensboro, the college enrolls about 1,000 students from 29 states and territories, the District of Columbia, and seven foreign countries in its undergraduate liberal-arts program and six master鈥檚 degree programs. In addition to rigorous academics and a well-supported Honors program, the school features a 17-sport NCAA Division III athletic program and dozens of service and recreational opportunities. Learn more at www.greensboro.edu.

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