Martha Collins (poet)

Martha Collins was (born 1940 Omaha, Nebraska) is an American poet.

Life

She graduated from Stanford University with a B.A., and the University of Iowa with a Ph.D.^[1]

She taught at University of Massachusetts Boston; she was the Pauline Delaney Chair in Creative Writing at Oberlin College.^[2][3]

She is editor of Field magazine.^[4] She is a member of International PEN.^[5]

Awards

• National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship
• Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
• Bunting Institute Fellowship
• Witter Bynner Grant for translation
• Lannan Foundation Residency Grant.
• Peregrine Smith Poetry Competition for The Arrangement of Space
• Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (2007) for Blue Front

Works

Poetry

• "Their Work", "from Time Was"; "Through", Martha Collins, Gone So Far
• "Lines", Poetry 180, Library of Congress

• Sheer (Barnwood, 2008) chapbook
• Blue Front. Graywolf Press. 2006. ISBN 9781555974497. ^[6]
• Some Things Words Can Do. Sheep Meadow Press. 1998. ISBN 9781878818744. 
• History of a Small Life on a Windy Planet - 1993
• The Arrangement of Space - 1991,
• The Catastrophe of Rainbows - 1985

Editor

• Martha Collins, ed (1984). Critical Essays on Louise Bogan. G.K. Hall. ISBN 9780816186808. 

Translator

• Nguyen Quang Thieu (1997). Martha Collins, Ba Chung Nguyen. ed. The Women Carry River Water. Translator Martha Collins. University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 9781558490871. http://books.google.com/books?id=iRyJt0APjYYC&dq=Martha+Collins+(poet)&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=Wieq4q6192&sig=TkaQEMy8zuQMIElcdEjUY77mezA&hl=en&ei=EzWISt34N56UtgfKzd3nDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7#v=onepage&q=Martha%20Collins%20(poet)&f=false. 

Anthologies

• Billy Collins, ed (2003). Poetry 180: a turning back to poetry. Random House, Inc.. ISBN 9780812968873. 
• Ruth Lepson, Lynne Yamaguchi Fletcher, ed (2004). "Re:Compisition". University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252071546. http://books.google.com/books?id=L7_6qFsetJwC&pg=PA40&dq=Martha+Collins+(poet)#v=onepage&q=Martha%20Collins%20(poet)&f=false. 
• William Smart, ed (1984). "White Tree with Branches". From Mt. San Angelo: stories, poems & essays. Associated University Presses. ISBN 9780845345085. http://books.google.com/books?id=gxrtLxEQ31kC&pg=PA64&dq=Martha+Collins+(poet)&lr=#v=onepage&q=Martha%20Collins%20(poet)&f=false. 
• Hilda Raz, ed (2001). "Running". Best of Prairie schooner: fiction and poetry. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 9780803289727. http://books.google.com/books?id=gqJe659IGroC&pg=PA180&dq=Martha+Collins+(poet)&lr=#v=onepage&q=Martha%20Collins%20(poet)&f=false. 
• Bill Henderson, ed (1986). The Pushcart prize XI: best of the small presses. Pushcart Press. ISBN 9780916366391. 
• Bill Henderson, ed (2003). Pushcart prize XXVII: best of the small presses. Pushcart Press. ISBN 9781888889352. 
• Bill Henderson, ed (2004). Pushcart prize XXIX, 2005: best of the small presses. W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated. ISBN 9781888889390. 

References

1. ^ http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/273
2. ^ http://www.oberlin.edu/giving/stories/story_previous_collins.html
3. ^ http://new.oberlin.edu/home/directory.dot?ranNum=37&firstName=martha&lastName=collins&entryType=all
4. ^ http://www.oberlin.edu/ocpress/about.html
5. ^ http://www.pen.org/MemberProfile.php/prmProfileID/26629
6. ^ Under "Recently Published" at http://www.marthacollinspoet.com/books/poems/bluefront.html

External links

• "Author's website"
• "Poet Martha Collins Reads 'From the Sky'", NPR
• "Interview with Martha Collins", Cervena Barva Press
• "Interview: Martha Collins", February 17, 2010
• "Award-Winning Poet Martha Collins", Commitment
• "Why Poetry and Prose Matter: A conversation with Pamela Alexander and Martha Collins", ATS, March 1999

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