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American poet

Everette "Rhett" Maddox (–)^[1] was an American poet who in co-founded (with Robert Stock and sculptor Franz Heldner) the longest-running poetry-reading series in the South at the Maple Leaf Bar in New Orleans, Louisiana.^[2]

Biography

Maddox was born near Prattville, Alabama.

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Called the "Christ of New Orleans" by Andrei Codrescu, Everette Maddox was a New Orleans legend, a poet whose mythos made it hard to know who he really was.

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Everette "Rhett" Maddox was an American poet who in co-founded the longest-running poetry-reading series in the South at the Maple Leaf Bar in New Orleans, Louisiana.

And the legend industry of Everette Maddox churns on with the relatively recent publication of I hope it's not over, and good-by () by the.

He studied at the University of Alabama, where he did his doctoral work but did not graduate.^[3]

He moved to New Orleans; beginning in , he taught at Xavier University but lost that position and later became homeless.

Also in , he became an associate editor for Louis Gallo's Burataria Review, then started organizing and MCing at the Maple Leaf Bar.^[4]

Maddox's work was published in The New Yorker and The Paris Review.

He published two books of poetry; a third was published posthumously.^[5] Other poetry was included in Umpteen Ways of Looking at a Possum: Critical and Creative Responses to Everette Maddox, edited b