![]() ![]() Stone's four subsequent collections of poetry - In All This Rain, Renaming the Streets, Where Water Begins, and Music from Apartment 8 - were published in 1980, 1985, 19, respectively. ![]() He was widely anthologized as a poet, and his work appeared in such publications as Poetry, The American Scholar, New York Quarterly, The Georgia Review, The Southern Review, New England Review, and Poetry Northwest. Stone's first book of poetry, The Smell of Matches, was published by Rutgers University Press in 1972. At roughly the same time that he joined the Emory medical school faculty in 1969, Stone attended the Bread Loaf Writers Conference in Vermont, where he would eventually return to serve as physician for three summers. The Mississippi-born Stone came to poetry before medicine, having edited his high school and college literary magazines before taking his medical degree at Washington University inSt. "Reading the poems of John Stone is like getting a house call from an eminent physician of the spirit." Poet and essayist John Henry Stone was a four-time Georgia Writer of the Year, as well as an honored and beloved professor of cardiology at Emory University's School of Medicine.Īs a poet, Stone discovered a way into "the territory of the heart," according to his fellow Georgia poet David Bottoms. ![]()
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