Charles Fort (poet)

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

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

• "American Gargoyle", Oyster Boy Review 13
• "The Magic Man Held a Blue Crystal Ball", Oyster Boy Review 13
• Afro Psalms, University of Nebraska at Kearney Press
• Frankenstein Was a Negro. Morris Pub. February 1, 2002. ISBN 978-0-9674123-1-3. 
• "In Memoriam (For My Wife, Wendy Fort)". Charles Fort (Poet). Retrieved 1 January 2016. 
• Immortelles: poems. University of Nebraska Press at Kearney. 2000. 
• Darvil: prose poems. St. Andrews Press. 1993. ISBN 978-0-932662-58-3. 
• The town clock burning: poems. St. Andrews Press. 1985. ISBN 978-0-932662-54-5. 
• We Did Not Fear The Father: New and Selected Poems (Red Hen Press)
• Mrs Belladonna's Supper Club Waltz (Backwaters Press)

Anthologies

• Yusef Komunyakaa, David Lehman, eds. (2003). "The Vagrant Hours". The Best American poetry. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-0388-3.  CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)

References

External links

• "Darvil Meets Little Black Sambo in Nebraska—A Poetry Performance", People of Color in Predominantly White Institutions (1998)