Jeff Daniel Marion

Poet, educator, editor, and publisher Jeff Daniel Marion was reared in the small northeastern Tennessee town of Rogersville. The time he spent on his grandmother’s and uncle’s nearby farms contributed to the pastoral sensibility underlying his poetry. Marion received his BS and MA from the University of Tennessee and began writing poetry in 1968, shortly before beginning to teach creative writing at Carson-Newman College in Jefferson, Tennessee. To date, nine volumes of Marion’s poetry have been published; his poems have also appeared in dozens of journals. After Marion’s retirement from Carson-Newman, he relocated to Knoxville, where he served as poet in residence at the University of Tennessee Library....