Leon Stokesbury
Rounding out our look at GSU faculty poets, today we turn to the late, great, and brilliant, Dr. Leon Stokesbury, who passed away last year. Stokesbury’s “Unsent Message to My Brother in His Pain,” is an epistolary poem, or a poem masquerading as a letter. Wry, funny, detail-oriented, this poem lands with tremendous emotional impact. It’s a personal favorite: