Charles Fort (poet)
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Charles Fort is an American poet. He was born in 1951 in New Haven, Connecticut, received his B.A. from Siena Heights College and his M.F.A. from Bowling Green University, and currently teaches at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. Poetry by Charles Fort has been included in the Best American Poetry collections for 2000 and 2003.
As a poet, Fort is heavily influenced by the likes of Richard Hugo and Philip Levine. He also cites a fondness for T.S. Eliot and William Carlos Williams as having colored his non-rhyming, intensely introspective poetry. Because he currently lives in Nebraska he has cultivated close connections with other Nebraska poets, including William Kloefkorn and former U.S. poet laureate Ted Kooser.
[edit] Selected Publications
- Town Clock Burning (St. Andrews Press, 1985)
- Darvil (St. Andrews Press, 1993)
- Frankenstein Was a Negro (Morris Press, 2002)
- Afro Psalms (n.pub., 2001)
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