Martha M. Vertreace-Doody

Martha Modena Vertreace-Doody (born Nov. 24, 1945) is an American poet, and author of short stories and articles on literature and teaching.[1] She is currently Distinguished Professor of English and Poet-in-Residence at Kennedy-King College in Chicago.

Vertreace-Doody was born in Washington, D.C. She earned degrees in English from District of Columbia’s Teachers College (BA in 1967) and Roosevelt University (MA, 1972), an MS in Religious Studies from Mundelein College in 1982, and an MFA from Vermont College (1996).[2][3] She has twice been a Fellow at the Hawthornden International Writers’ Retreat in Scotland.

Her work focuses on American experiences, as a black woman in the Chicago region, as a participant in American history, and as a community activist. She has been involved in Chicago’s Catholic and African American communities, serving as a time as an editor of Community Magazine at Friendship House in Chicago,[4] and publishing poetry in the National Catholic Reporter.

Her literary career aligned with a growing movement emerging after the 1950s of academic institutions in Chicago to foster poets.[5] Vertreace-Doody was the featured Illinois poet in the winter 1988 issue of Spoon River Quarterly.[6][7] She was a featured poet in Maverick Magazine in 1999.[8] Her poems have appeared in anthologies including Illinois Voices: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Poetry (University of Illinois Press), Poets of the New Century (David R. Godine Publisher), and Manthology: Poems on the Male Experience (University of Iowa Press) and The Incredible Sestina Anthology (Write Bloody Publishing). Her most recent work, In This Good Hour, was based on a study of diaries and letters from 1824-1848, to create a collection of poems that chronicles and gives voice to the life of Elizabeth Duncan, the wife of Joseph Duncan, the sixth governor of Illinois.[9][10] [11]

Awards

Selected Works

Collections of Poems

Stories for Children

Essays

External links

References

  1. Barbara Thrash Murphy. 1999. Black Authors and Illustrators of Books for Children and Young Adults: A Biographical Dictionary, 3rd ed. Psychology Press.
  2. International Who's Who in Poetry 2005. Europa Publications.
  3. The New Kennedy-King College: One of the City College of Chicago 2008 - 2010 Catalog, p. 228. https://www.ccc.edu/menu/Documents/Academic%20Catalogs%202008-2010/KKC_Academic_Catalog_2008-2010.pdf
  4. by Albert Schorsch, III, 1990. "‘Uncommon Women and Others”: Memoris and Lessons from Radical Catholics at Friendship House,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 9(4):371-386, Fall, 1990.
  5. David Starkey and Bill Savage. Encyclopedia of Chicago. http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/980.html
  6. The Pantagraph, March 1, 1989, p. 16.
  7. David Moll, “Vertreace to Give Poetry Readking, Workshop,” The Argus, Illinois Wesleyan University, Nov. 10, 1989. http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/iwu_argus/id/6256
  8. Maverick Magazine. http://www.maverickmagazine.com/categories/Issues/Feature-Poet-2%3A-Martha-Modena-Vertreace/
  9. Ann Tracy Mueller “Continuing coverage of Jacksonville 2009 - Poets extraordinaire,” Lincoln Buff 2. Tuesday, April 14, 2009. https://lincolnbuff2.blogspot.com/2009/04/continuing-coverage-of-jacksonville.html
  10. Grace Curtis, 2011. Finding the Poetic Needle in the Haystack at the NFSPS Conference. N2 Poetry. June 27, 2011. https://n2poetry.com/2011/06/27/finding-the-poetic-needle-in-the-haystack-at-the-nfsps-conference-2/
  11. Virtual Artists Collective. http://vacpoetry.org/in-this-glad-hour/
  12. Northwest Cultural Council Spring 2006 Spotlights. http://www.northwestculturalcouncil.org/spotlights/2006Spring.pdf
  13. Glendora Review: African Quarterly on the Arts Vol. 01 No. 3 1996.
  14. American Women Writing Fiction: Memory, Identity, Family, Space, p. 236.
  15. http://www.barringtonarealibrary.org/files/BAAC_AR_1989-1990.pdf.
  16. NEA Literature Fellowships. http://scua.library.umass.edu/digital/mums686/mums686-NEA_lit.pdf.
  17. Virtual Artist’s Collective: Martha Vertreace-Doody. http://vacpoetry.org/tag/martha-vertreace-doody/.
  18. College Union Voice. November 2005, Volume 42, Number 11, p. 12. http://ccctu.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/November-2005.pdf
  19. C. J. Laity. http://chicagopoetry.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=448
  20. Fred Chappell. “Review: Maiden Voyages and Their Pilots” Georgia Review, Vol. 46, No. 4 (Winter 1992), pp. 764-779.
  21. Publisher's Weekly. http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-8075-4152-4
  22. Kirkus Reviews. https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/martha-m-vertreace/kelly-in-the-mirror/
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