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Born in New Britain, Connecticut, poet
CHARLES FORT holds
the Paul W and Clarice Kingston
Reynolds Chair in Poetry at the University of
Nebraska — Kearney. He 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 YMCA's
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.
His books include Town Clock Burning (St
Andrews P, 1985; reprinted in the Classic Contemporary Edition in the
Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series, 1991),
Darvil (St Andrews P, 1993),
We Did Not Fear the Father,
As the Lilac Burned the Laurel Grew,
and Immortelles, all
Reynolds Chair Books,
U of Nebraska at Kearney P, 1999.
His poetry has appeared in Best American Poetry 2000, Best of Prose Poem
International, The American Poetry Review,
Georgia Review, The Carnegie Mellon Anthology of Poetry, and other
places, including eleven anthologies.
He holds the MFA from Bowling Green State University, and was the
founder and director of the creative writing program at the University of
North Carolina at Wilmington.
Fort's research
projects include the completion of a book-length poem, and a documentary
based, in part, on the
poem and the author's hometown.
His most recent collections are
The Vagrant Hours (Reynolds Chair Books, 2005), Afro Psalms: A Sonnet
Redoublé (Reynolds Chair Books, 2005), and Frankenstein Was a Negro (Loganhouse Press, 2002).
Forthcoming books include We Did Not Fear The Father: New and Selected Poems
Red Hen, named by Poets and Writers as one of the fourteen best presses
in the United States) and Mrs. Belladonna’s Supper Club
Waltz, a prose poem sequence with elements of fiction and creative non-fiction,
to be published by Backwaters Press.
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