Camille Martin

Camille Martin (born 1956) is a Canadian poet and collage artist. After residing in New Orleans for fourteen years, in 2005 she moved to Toronto [1] following Hurricane Katrina.[2]

Biography

Early life and education

Camille Martin was born in El Dorado, Arkansas, in 1956 and spent most of her childhood in Lafayette, Louisiana. In 1980 she earned a Master of Music in Piano Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music. In 1996 she received a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from the University of New Orleans. Her thesis, a collection of poems entitled at peril, passed with distinction. In 2003 she received a PhD in English from Louisiana State University. Her dissertation, Radical Dialectics in the Experimental Poetry of Berssenbrugge, Hejinian, Harryman, Weiner, and Scalapino,[3] won the Lewis P. Simpson Distinguished Dissertation Award. She has received grants for poetry from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the Toronto Arts Council, and the League of Canadian Poets.

Career

Martin is the author of four full-length poetry collections: Looms (Shearsman Books, 2012), Sonnets Shearsman Books, 2010),[4] Codes of Public Sleep[5] (Toronto: BookThug, 2007), and Sesame Kiosk (Elmwood, Conn.: Potes & Poets, 2001). She has also published four chapbooks: If Leaf, Then Arpeggio,[6] Rogue Embryo, Magnus Loop, and Plastic Heaven.[1] Her poetry is widely published in journals in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom, and has been translated into Spanish and German.

Martin is also co-editor and co-translator with John P. Clark of two books: Anarchy, Geography, Modernity: The Radical Social Thought of Elisée Reclus (Lanham, JD: Lexington Books, 2004)[7] and A Voyage to New Orleans: Anarchist Impressions of the Old South (Warner, NH: Glad Day Books, 1999, 2004).[8]

From 2006 to 2010, she taught literature and writing at Ryerson University,[9] where she served as an editor for the literary journal White Wall, co-curated the poetry reading series Live Poets Society, and hosted a monthly edition of the literary program In Other Words on CKLN-FM.[10]

Martin regularly writes essays about poetry and the visual arts at her blog, Rogue Embryo.[11] She also maintains a website, CamilleMartin.ca, about her poetry and collage.[12]

Published works

Poetry books and chapbooks

Other books

Anthologies

References

  1. 1 2 League of Canadian Poets
  2. ↑ Poetics List Archive
  3. ↑ LSU Dissertations
  4. ↑ Frazer, Tony. "Sonnets". Shearsman Books. Retrieved 5 April 2012.
  5. ↑ BookThug
  6. ↑ mclennan, rob. "Above/Ground Press". Retrieved 5 April 2012.
  7. ↑ Lexington Books Catalog
  8. ↑ Google Books
  9. ↑ Ryerson University, Department of English Faculty
  10. ↑ CKLN, In Other Words
  11. ↑ Martin, Camille. "Rogue Embryo". Retrieved 5 April 2012.
  12. ↑ Martin, Camille. "Camille Martin". Retrieved 5 April 2012.
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