Martha Collins (poet)
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, ed. 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, ed. (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
- ↑ http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/273
- ↑ http://www.oberlin.edu/giving/stories/story_previous_collins.html
- ↑ http://new.oberlin.edu/home/directory.dot?ranNum=37&firstName=martha&lastName=collins&entryType=all
- ↑ http://www.oberlin.edu/ocpress/about.html
- ↑ http://www.pen.org/MemberProfile.php/prmProfileID/26629
- ↑ 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
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