Rhoades, George

George Rhoades, award-winning poet, has been a rancher, reporter/editor and college journalism professor. He retired from UT-Arlington and moved to Duncan, Okla., where he owned a hay farm. An earlier book, Along the Chisholm Trail and Other Poems, won a number of national prizes, including the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award, the Will Rogers Medallion for Cowboy Poetry, and was a finalist for Western Music Association Poetry Book of Year, a finalist for the National Indie Excellence Book Award, and winner of a Reader Views Literary Award.