Background
Stan Rice was born in Dallas, Texas in 1942.
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Education
They briefly attended together North Texas State University in Denton, before moving to San Francisco in 1962, to enroll at San Francisco State University, where they both earned their Master of Arts.
Career
He was the husband of author Anne Rice. Rice was a Professor of English and Creative Writing at San Francisco State University. Rice retired after 22 years as Chairman of the Creative Writing program as well as Assistant Director of the Poetry Center in 1989.
lieutenant was the death of his and Anne"s first child, daughter Michele (1966–1972), at age six of leukemia, which sparked Stan Rice"s becoming a published author
His first book of poems, based on his daughter"s illness and death, was titled Some Lamb, and was published in 1975. Stan Rice paintings are represented in the collections of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and the New Orleans Museum of Artist
He had a one-person show at the James West. Palmer Gallery, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New New York The Art Galleries of Southeastern Louisiana presented an exhibition of selected paintings in March 2005.
Prospective plans are underway to present exhibitions of Rice"s paintings at various locations in Mexico.
In Prism of the Night, Anne Rice said of Stan: "He"s a model to me of a man who doesn"t look to heaven or hell to justify his feelings about life itself. His capacity for action is admirable. Very early on he said to me, "What more could you ask for than life itself"?" Poet Deborah Garrison was Rice"s editor at Alfred A. Knopf for his 2002 collection, Red to the Rind, which was dedicated to Christopher, in whose success as a novelist his father greatly rejoiced.
Garrison said of Rice: "Stan really attempted to kind of stare down the world, and I admire that." Knopf"s Victoria Wilson, who edits Anne"s novels and worked with Stan Rice on his 1997 book, Paintings, was particularly impressed by his refusal to sell his artworks, saying, "The great thing about Stan is that he refused to play the game as a painter, and he refused to play the game as a poet." Rice is entombed in Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans.
Two series of recordings – one from 1973 at San Francisco State University and the other from 1996 at the poet"s New Orleans home by filmmaker Blair Murphy – capturing Stan Rice reading several of his poems can be currently viewed at the YouTube site dedicated to the poet.
Achievements
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In 1977 he received the Academy of American Poets" Edgar Allan Poe Award for Whiteboy, and in subsequent years was also the recipient of the Joseph Henry Jackson Award as well as a writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Whiteboy (1976) (earned the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Academy of American Poets).
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