Camille Martin

Camille Martin (b. 1956) is a Canadian poet and collage artist who lives in Toronto. After residing in New Orleans for fourteen years, in 2005 she moved to Toronto [http://www.poets.ca/linktext/direct/martin.htm League of Canadian Poets] ] following Hurricane Katrina [http://listserv.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0508&L=poetics&P=200974 Poetics List Archive] ] .

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” [http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-0120103-194126/unrestricted/Martin_dis.pdf LSU Dissertations] ] , won the Lewis P. Simpson Distinguished Dissertation Award. She has received grants for poetry from the [http://www.crt.state.la.us/arts/ Louisiana Division of the Arts] , the Ontario Arts Council, and the [http://www.poets.ca/ League of Canadian Poets] .

Career

Martin is the author of four chapbooks: "sesame kiosk", "rogue embryo", "magnus loop", and "Plastic Heaven" . In 2007, [http://www.bookthug.ca/ BookThug] published her first full-length book of poems, "Codes of Public Sleep". [http://www.bookthug.ca/proddetail.php?prod=3026 BookThug] ] Her poetry is widely published in journals in the United States and Canada.

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) [http://www.lexingtonbooks.com/Catalog Lexington Books Catalog] ] and "A Voyage to New Orleans: Anarchist Impressions of the Old South" (Warner, NH: Glad Day Books, 1999, 2004). [http://books.google.com/books?id=JRwUn32pz9AC&pg=PR9&lpg=PR9&dq=A+Voyage+to+New+Orleans:+Anarchist+Impressions+of+the+Old+South&source=web&ots=5uJsDxn4F6&sig=Ta0CLoYi-5snxLonenk2vFX9n2U&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result#PPT1,M1 Google Books] ]

Since 2006, she has taught literature and writing at Ryerson University [http://www.ryerson.ca/english/faculty/martinc.html Ryerson University, Department of English Faculty] ] , where she hosts a monthly edition of the literary program In Other Words at CKLN 88.1 FM. [http://www.ckln.fm/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=92&Itemid=238 CKLN, In Other Words] ]

Published works

Poetry books and chapbooks

* "Plastic Heaven". New Orleans: Single-author issue of Fell Swoop, 1996.
* "magnus loop". Tucson: Chax Press, 1999.
* "rogue embryo". New Orleans: Lavender Ink, 1999.
* "sesame kiosk". Elmwood, Conn.: Potes & Poets Press, 2001.
* "Codes of Public Sleep". Toronto: BookThug, 2007.

Other books

* "A Voyage to New Orleans: Anarchist Impressions of the Old South" (co-translator and co-editor, with John P. Clark). Warner, NH: Glad Day Books, 1999, 2004.
* "The Radical Social Thought of Elisée Reclus" (co-translator and co-editor, with John P. Clark). Lanham, JD: Lexington Books, 2004.

Anthologies

* "The Maple Leaf Rag: Fifteenth Anniversary Anthology". New Orleans: Portals Press, 1994. 115.
* "From a Bend in the River". New Orleans: Runagate Press, 1998. 126-27.
* "Onsets". The Gig: Toronto, 2004. n.p..
* "Other Sticky Valentines". Lazy Frog Press, 2002. 6.
* "Another South: Experimental Writing in the South". Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 2002. 133.

References

External Links

* http://www.camillemartin.ca
* http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/martinc/