Alfred Corn
(1943 - living) U.S.A.
Poet
 Alfred Corn was born in Bainbridge, Georgia, in 1943. He grew up in Valdosta, Georgia, and attended Emory University then Columbia, where he pursued postgraduate studies in French literature.
He has taught at Columbia, Commecticut College, Yale and the City University of New York. By the end of the 1990s he made his home in lower Manhattan.
Although he is himself "out", Corn's work does not treat homosexual themes exclusively or even pervasively.
Some of his best work is, however, explicitly gay, and with an autobiographical component, dealing frankly with such issues as his marriage and divorce and his homosexuality.
Perhaps the most profound and elusive aspect of his poetry is spirituality. Corn is a practicing Episcopalian whose work often seem, for all its witty candour, infused with divinity.
 His poetry books include:
- Notes from a Child of Paradise (1984)
- Autobiographies: Poems (1992)
- Stake: Poems, 1972-1992 (1999)
- Contradictions (2002)
Source excerpts from: Aldrich R. & Wotherspoon G., Who's Who in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History, from WWII to Present Day, Routledge, London, 2001
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