Martha Collins (poet)

Martha Collins
Born	1940 (age 75–76) Omaha, Nebraska
Language	English
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Stanford University, University of Iowa
Genre	Poetry
Website
marthacollinspoet.com

Martha Collins (born 1940 Omaha, Nebraska) is an American poet.

Life

She graduated from Stanford University with a B.A., and the University of Iowa with a Ph.D.^[1]

She taught at University of Massachusetts Boston; she was the Pauline Delaney Chair in Creative Writing at Oberlin College.^[2][3]

She is editor of Field magazine.^[4] She is a member of International PEN.^[5]

Awards

• National Endowment of the Arts Fellowshipd
• Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
• Bunting Institute Fellowship
• Witter Bynner Grant for translation
• Lannan Foundation Residency Grant
• Peregrine Smith Poetry Competition for The Arrangement of Space
• Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (2007) for Blue Front

Works

Poetry

• "Their Work", "from Time Was"; "Through", Martha Collins, Gone So Far
• "Lines", Poetry 180, Library of Congress
• Sheer (Barnwood, 2008) chapbook
• Blue Front. Graywolf Press. 2006. ISBN 978-1-55597-449-7.^[6]
• Some Things Words Can Do. Sheep Meadow Press. 1998. ISBN 978-1-878818-74-4.
• History of a Small Life on a Windy Planet - 1993
• The Arrangement of Space - 1991,
• The Catastrophe of Rainbows - 1985

Editor

• Martha Collins, ed. (1984). Critical Essays on Louise Bogan. G.K. Hall. ISBN 978-0-8161-8680-8.

Translator

• Nguyen Quang Thieu (1997). Martha Collins, Ba Chung Nguyen, eds. The Women Carry River Water. Translator Martha Collins. University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 978-1-55849-087-1.

Anthologies

• Billy Collins, ed. (2003). Poetry 180: a turning back to poetry. Random House, Inc. ISBN 978-0-8129-6887-3.
• Ruth Lepson, Lynne Yamaguchi Fletcher, eds. (2004). "Re:composition". Poetry from Sojourner: A Feminist Anthology. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-07154-6.
• William Smart, ed. (1984). "White Tree with Branches". From Mt. San Angelo: stories, poems & essays. Associated University Presses. ISBN 978-0-8453-4508-5.
• Hilda Raz, ed. (2001). "Running". Best of Prairie schooner: fiction and poetry. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-8972-7.
• Bill Henderson, ed. (1986). The Pushcart prize XI: best of the small presses. Pushcart Press. ISBN 978-0-916366-39-1.
• Bill Henderson, ed. (2003). Pushcart prize XXVII: best of the small presses. Pushcart Press. ISBN 978-1-888889-35-2.
• Bill Henderson, ed. (2004). Pushcart prize XXIX, 2005: best of the small presses. W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated. ISBN 978-1-888889-39-0.

References

1. http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/273
2. http://www.oberlin.edu/giving/stories/story_previous_collins.html
3. http://new.oberlin.edu/home/directory.dot?ranNum=37&firstName=martha&lastName=collins&entryType=all
4. http://www.oberlin.edu/ocpress/about.html
5. http://www.pen.org/MemberProfile.php/prmProfileID/26629
6. Under "Recently Published" at http://www.marthacollinspoet.com/books/poems/bluefront.html

External links

• "Author's website"
• "Poet Martha Collins Reads 'From the Sky'", NPR
• "Interview with Martha Collins", Cervena Barva Press
• "Interview: Martha Collins", February 17, 2010
• "Award-Winning Poet Martha Collins", Commitment
• "Why Poetry and Prose Matter: A conversation with Pamela Alexander and Martha Collins", ATS, March 1999