Martha Collins (poet)
Encyclopedia
Life
She graduated from Stanford UniversityStanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
with a B.A., and the University of Iowa
University of Iowa
The University of Iowa is a public state-supported research university located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. It is the oldest public university in the state. The university is organized into eleven colleges granting undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees...
with a Ph.D.
She taught at University of Massachusetts Boston
University of Massachusetts Boston
The University of Massachusetts Boston, also known as UMass Boston, is an urban public research university and the second largest campus in the five-campus University of Massachusetts system. The university is located on on Harbor Point in the City of Boston, Massachusetts, United States...
; she was the Pauline Delaney Chair in Creative Writing at Oberlin College
Oberlin College
Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio, noteworthy for having been the first American institution of higher learning to regularly admit female and black students. Connected to the college is the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the oldest continuously operating...
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She is editor of Field magazine. She is a member of International PEN
International PEN
PEN International , the worldwide association of writers, was founded in London in 1921 to promote friendship and intellectual co-operation among writers everywhere....
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Awards
- National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship
- Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship
- National Endowment for the HumanitiesNational Endowment for the HumanitiesThe National Endowment for the Humanities is an independent federal agency of the United States established by the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities. The NEH is located at...
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
Poetry
- "Their Work", "from Time Was"; "Through", Martha Collins, Gone So Far
- "Lines", Poetry 180, Library of Congress
- Sheer (Barnwood, 2008) chapbook
- History of a Small Life on a Windy Planet - 1993
- The Arrangement of Space - 1991,
- The Catastrophe of Rainbows - 1985
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