About the Author

Everette Maddox was a poet, who in 1979 co-founded the longest-running poetry reading series in the South at the Maple Leaf Bar in New Orleans. He was born in Montgomery, Alabama, and after studying at the University of Alabama, he was named Poet-in-Residence at Xavier University in 1975. His work has been published in The New Yorker and The Paris Review. He passed away in 1989.