Charles Fort (born 1951 New Britain, Connecticut) is an American poet.

Life

Fort graduated from Bowling Green State University with an MFA in 1977.[1] He taught at the University of Nebraska at Kearney as The Distinguished Paul W. Reynolds and Clarice Kingston Reynolds Endowed Chair in Poetry (1997–2007),[2][3] and Xavier University of Louisiana.[4][5][6]

His work has appeared in Callaloo,[7] The Georgia Review, Connecticut Writer's Anthology, Road Apple Review, White lade, and Argo.

Awards

  • 1994 winner of the Open Voice Award by The Writer's Voice
  • MacDowell Fellowship
  • Poetry Society of America award
  • 1985 Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize[8]
  • The Mary Carolyn Davis Memorial Award

Works

  • "American Gargoyle", Oyster Boy Review 13
  • "The Magic Man Held a Blue Crystal Ball", Oyster Boy Review 13
  • Afro Psalms, University of Nebraska at Kearney Press
  • Frankenstein Was a Negro. Morris Pub. February 1, 2002. ISBN 978-0-9674123-1-3.
  • "In Memoriam (For My Wife, Wendy Fort)". Charles Fort (Poet). Retrieved 1 January 2016.
  • Immortelles: poems. University of Nebraska Press at Kearney. 2000.
  • Darvil: prose poems. St. Andrews Press. 1993. ISBN 978-0-932662-58-3.
  • The town clock burning: poems. St. Andrews Press. 1985. ISBN 978-0-932662-54-5.
  • We Did Not Fear The Father: New and Selected Poems (Red Hen Press, 2021)
  • Mrs Belladonna's Supper Club Waltz (Backwaters Press)

Anthologies

  • Yusef Komunyakaa; David Lehman, eds. (2003). "The Vagrant Hours". The Best American poetry. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-0388-3.

References

  1. ↑ "Creative Writing at Bowling Green State University - Books by Graduates of the Creative Writing Programs". Archived from the original on 2009-04-29. Retrieved 2009-10-30.
  2. ↑ University of Nebraska at Kearney
  3. ↑ "NCW--Charles Fort". Archived from the original on 2009-12-31. Retrieved 2009-10-30.
  4. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-05-27. Retrieved 2009-10-30.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. ↑ "Fort". Archived from the original on 2011-08-31. Retrieved 2009-01-02.
  6. ↑ "Nebraska MFA in Writing | Faculty". Archived from the original on 2009-09-18. Retrieved 2009-10-30.
  7. ↑ Callaloo #38. Johns Hopkins University. January 1989.
  8. ↑ "North Carolina Poetry Society - Adult Poetry Contest Judges - 2008". Archived from the original on 2011-07-28. Retrieved 2009-10-30.
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