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Born in Spartanburg
County, Butler Brewton received his
Ph.D from Rutgers
University. Brewton has
more than seventy-five poetry publications in literary journals and magazines,
including Pulpsmith, Lips, Footwork, Midway Review,
Nimrod and Essence. He was an original Hub City
writer, and his personal essays appear in Hub
City Anthology and Hub City Christmas.
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He was a tenured professor of English for
twenty-five years at Montclair State University
in New Jersey,
retiring as professor emeritus. During that period he served as
poet-in-residence for the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. In 1995 he
moved back to the Upstate, first to Spartanburg,
then to Greenville.
He published the collection of poems Rafters (Sunbelt Books) in 1995 and
Indian Summer (Sunbelt) in 1997. He is
currently serving as an adjunct professor of English at Furman University.
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