Charles Fort (poet)
Charles Fort (born 1951 New Britain, Connecticut) is an American poet.
Life
Fort graduated from Bowling Green State University with an MFA in 1977.[1] He taught at the University of Nebraska at Kearney as The Distinguished Paul W. Reynolds and Clarice Kingston Reynolds Endowed Chair in Poetry (1997–2007),[2][3] and Xavier University of Louisiana.[4] He currently teaches at University of Nebraska Low Residency MFA Program,[5][6]
His work has appeared in Callaloo,[7] The Georgia Review, Connecticut Writer's Anthology, Road Apple Review, White lade, and Argo.
Awards
- 1994 winner of the Open Voice Award by The Writer's Voice
- MacDowell Fellowship
- Poetry Society of America award
- 1985 Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize[8]
- The Mary Carolyn Davis Memorial Award
Works
- "American Gargoyle", Oyster Boy Review 13
- "The Magic Man Held a Blue Crystal Ball", Oyster Boy Review 13
- Afro Psalms, University of Nebraska at Kearney Press
- Frankenstein Was a Negro. Morris Pub. February 1, 2002. ISBN 978-0-9674123-1-3.
- "In Memoriam (For My Wife, Wendy Fort)". Charles Fort (Poet). Retrieved 1 January 2016.
- Immortelles: poems. University of Nebraska Press at Kearney. 2000.
- Darvil: prose poems. St. Andrews Press. 1993. ISBN 978-0-932662-58-3.
- The town clock burning: poems. St. Andrews Press. 1985. ISBN 978-0-932662-54-5.
- We Did Not Fear The Father: New and Selected Poems (Red Hen Press)
- Mrs Belladonna's Supper Club Waltz (Backwaters Press)
Anthologies
- Yusef Komunyakaa, David Lehman, eds. (2003). "The Vagrant Hours". The Best American poetry. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-0388-3.
References
- ↑ http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/creative-writing/books-by-grads.html
- ↑ University of Nebraska at Kearney
- ↑ http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/NCW/fort.htm
- ↑ http://www.xula.edu/review/assets/pdf/volume%201%20numbers%201%20and%202.pdf
- ↑
- ↑ http://www.unomaha.edu/unmfaw/Faculty/Faculty.php#fort
- ↑ http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001GJ7XTA
- ↑ http://www.sleepycreek.org/poetry/judgesadult/judgesadult2008.htm
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