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Born in New Britain, Connecticut, poet CHARLES FORT is a 1994
winner of the Open Voice Award, given yearly to writers who have never
read at The Writer's Voice, a literary arts project housed in YMCAs
throughout the country. He is also the recipient of a MacDowell
Fellowship and awards from the Poetry Society of America, the Randall
Jarrell Poetry Prize, and The Mary Carolyn Davis Memorial Award, and
he held the Paul W and Clarice Kingston Reynolds Chair in Poetry at
the University of Nebraska at Kearney (1997-2007). His books include
Town Clock Burning (St Andrews Press, 1985; reprinted in the Classic
Contemporary Edition in the Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series, 1991) and
Darvil (St Andrews Press, 1993). His most recent books are We Did Not
Fear the Father, As the Lilac Burned the Laurel Grew, Immortelles, The
Poet's Wife, Blues of a Mumbling Train, The Vagrant Hours, and Afro
Psalms (all Reynolds Chair Books, University of Nebraska at Kearney
Press). His poetry has appeared in Best American Poetry 2000, Best
American Poetry 2003, Best of Prose Poem International, The American
Poetry Review, Georgia Review, The Carnegie Mellon Anthology of
Poetry, and other places, including twenty-one anthologies. His newest
collection, Frankenstein Was a Negro, is from Loganhouse Press, 2002.
Fort also has two books forthcoming: We Did Not Fear The Father: New
and Selected Poems (Red Hen Press) and Mrs Belladonna's Supper Club
Waltz (Backwaters Press), Fort's third prose poem sequence, with
elements of fiction and creative non-fiction.
He can be reached at brownzorro@gmail.com.
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