Morton Marcus (poet)

Morton Marcus
photo by Jana Marcus
Born	September 10, 1936(1936-09-10) New York City
Died	October 28, 2009(2009-10-28) (aged 73) Santa Cruz, California
Website
http://www.MortonMarcus.com

Morton Marcus (1936-2009) was a poet and author having published more than 500 poems in literary journals across the country, including Poetry (Chicago), TriQuarterly, Ploughshares, Chelsea, The Chicago Review, The Iowa Review, Zyzzyva, Poetry Northwest, and The Denver Quarterly. Four times his work was selected to appear in prize poem annuals (The Borestone Mountain Awards of 1967 and 1975, and the 1985 and 1987 Anthology of Magazine Verse). His work has appeared in over 90 anthologies in the United States, Europe, and Australia. He also has served as the poet in residence for several universities, and led workshops at colleges across America. Marcus was also a long time co-host of KUSP radio's The Poetry Show, the longest running poetry radio show in the United States.^[1]

Morton Marcus wrote eleven volumes of published poetry:

• Origins (6 editions 1969-1974)^[2]
• The Santa Cruz Mountain Poems (3 editions 1972-1992)^[3]
• Where the Oceans Cover Us (1972)^[4]
• Armies Encamped in the Fields Beyond the Unfinished Avenues (1977)^[5]
• Big Winds, Glass Mornings, Shadows Cast by Stars (2 editions 1981-1988)^[6]
• Pages from a Scrapbook of Immigrants (1988)^[7]
• When People Could Fly (1997)^[8]
• Shouting Down the Silence: Verse Poems, 1988-2001 (pub. 2002)^[9]
• Moments Without Names: New & Selected Prose Poems (2002)^[10]
• Pursuing The Dream Bone (2007)^[11]
• The Dark Figure in the Doorway: Last Poems (2010)^[12]

In addition to poetry, Morton Marcus also authored The Brezhnev Memo (1980)^[13] a novel, and Striking Through The Masks: A Literary Memoir (2008).^[14] Marcus also translated the works of Serbian poet Vasko Popa in The Star Wizard's Legacy(2010).^[15]

Marcus’s extensive poetry archive, working papers, and correspondence with a broad range of 20th century authors have been acquired by University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) Special Collections,^[16] where they are available to both academic community and the public.

Outside of the literary world, Marcus created a sixteen part television review of film Movie Milestones which has been shown on cable networks throughout the United States, along with being the main visual source of film history at AFTRS, the Australian national film school. His film reviews became part of a television show Cinema Scene, ^[17]shown in the San Francisco Bay Area, which he co-hosted with Richard von Busack. In addition to writing and reviewing movies, Marcus also taught film and English at Cabrillo College in Santa Cruz.

References

1. ^ http://www.kusp.org/shows/poetry.html
2. ^ , ISBN 978-0877110453 
3. ^ , ISBN 978-0912264462 
4. ^ , ISBN 978-0912264400 
5. ^ , ISBN none issued 
6. ^ , ISBN 978-0937310069 
7. ^ , ISBN 978-0918273475 
8. ^ , ISBN 978-1882413447 
9. ^ , ISBN 978-0887394539 
10. ^ , ISBN 978-1893996519 
11. ^ , ISBN 978-0974450391 
12. ^ , ISBN 978-1935210160 
13. ^ , ISBN 978-0440110347 
14. ^ , ISBN 978-0932319098 
15. ^ , ISBN 978-1935210115 
16. ^ http://library.ucsc.edu/speccoll/featured-acquisitions
17. ^ http://www.cinemascene.org/

External links

• MortonMarcus.com[1]
• "Morton Marcus Lives On"[2]
• "Morton Marcus: Santa Cruz Poet"[3]
• forpoetry.com[4]

Persondata
Name	Marcus, Morton
Alternative names	Mort Marcus
Short description
Date of birth	1936
Place of birth	New York City
Date of death	2009
Place of death	Santa Cruz, California