Charles Fort (poet)

Charles Fort (poet)

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

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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] He currently teaches at University of Nebraska Low Residency MFA Program,[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

  • We Did Not Fear The Father: New and Selected Poems (Red Hen Press)
  • Mrs Belladonna's Supper Club Waltz (Backwaters Press)

Anthologies

References

External links


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