Charles Fort (poet) explained

Charles Fort
Birth Place:	New Britain, Connecticut, U.S.
Occupation:	Poet
Nationality:	American
Education:	Bowling Green State University (MFA)

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] [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
• Book: Frankenstein Was a Negro. Morris Pub. February 1, 2002. 978-0-9674123-1-3 .
• Web site: In Memoriam (For My Wife, Wendy Fort). Charles Fort (Poet). 1 January 2016.
• Book: Immortelles: poems. University of Nebraska Press at Kearney. 2000 .
• Book: Darvil: prose poems. St. Andrews Press. 1993. 978-0-932662-58-3. registration.
• Book: The town clock burning: poems. St. Andrews Press. 1985. 978-0-932662-54-5 .
• We Did Not Fear The Father: New and Selected Poems (Red Hen Press, 2021)
• Mrs Belladonna's Supper Club Waltz (Backwaters Press)

Anthologies

• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=2q9oWkyMh54C&q=Charles+Fort+%28poet%29&pg=PA63. The Vagrant Hours. The Best American poetry. Yusef Komunyakaa . David Lehman. Simon and Schuster. 2003. 978-0-7432-0388-3 .

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Creative Writing at Bowling Green State University - Books by Graduates of the Creative Writing Programs . 2009-10-30 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090429092750/http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/creative-writing/books-by-grads.html . 2009-04-29 .
2. [University of Nebraska at Kearney]
3. Web site: NCW--Charles Fort . 2009-10-30 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20091231165148/http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/NCW/fort.htm . 2009-12-31 .
4. Web site: Archived copy . 2009-10-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100527183134/http://www.xula.edu/review/assets/pdf/volume%201%20numbers%201%20and%202.pdf . 2010-05-27 . dead .
5. Web site: Fort . 2009-01-02 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110831145102/http://tvdec.k12.ne.us/cec/cecfort.htm . 2011-08-31 .
6. Web site: Nebraska MFA in Writing | Faculty . 2009-10-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090918231905/http://www.unomaha.edu/unmfaw/Faculty/Faculty.php#fort . 2009-09-18 . dead .
7. Book: Callaloo #38. January 1989. Johns Hopkins University.
8. Web site: North Carolina Poetry Society - Adult Poetry Contest Judges - 2008 . 2009-10-30 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110728030641/http://www.sleepycreek.org/poetry/judgesadult/judgesadult2008.htm . 2011-07-28 .