United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.387982010/2020David Bottoms served as state poet laureate of Georgia from 2000 to 2012. His first full-length volume of poetry, Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump (1980), brought him national attention. The poems are set in a landscape of southern woods and honky-tonks, "good old boys" and semi-outlaws.Photograph of Georgia writer David Bottoms. In 2000 Bottoms was appointed by Governor Roy Barnes as Georgia's Poet Laureate. His many awards and publications over the past two decades attest to his stature as one of the South's leading writers.image/jpeghttp://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/david-bottoms-b-1949Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopediahttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/david-bottoms-b-1949Forms part of: New Georgia EncyclopediaPoets laureate--GeorgiaMen--Georgia--AtlantaBookcases--Georgia--AtlantaCollege teachers--Georgia--AtlantaGeorgia State University--FacultyPoets, American--GeorgiaNovelists, American--Georgia--AtlantaAuthors, American--Georgia--AtlantaBottoms, DavidDavid BottomsStillImage