Mark Turpin (poet) explained

Mark Turpin is an American poet.

Life

Turpin is the son of a Presbyterian minister. He has spent 25 years working construction and building houses. He graduated from Boston University at age 47, with a master's degree.

He lives and works in Berkeley, California.

His work has appeared in The Paris Review,^[1] The Threepenny Review,^[2] Ploughshares,^[3] and Slate.

Awards

• 1997 Whiting Award
• 2004 Ploughshares John C. Zacharis First Book Award for Hammer

Works

• "Jobsite Wind", Slate
• "Waiting for Lumber", Slate, July 16, 2002
• "The Furrow", Tarpaulin Sky, Winter 2002
• "The Box"; "Pickwork"; "Shithouse"; "In Winter"; "Will Turpin b. 1987"; "Photograph From Antietam", Boston Review, 19.1
• "The Box", Online News Hour, September 2, 2002
• Book: Hammer. Sarabande Books. 2003. 978-1-889330-86-0 .
• Book: Take three 2. Graywolf Press. 1997. 978-1-55597-254-7. Susan Aizenberg, Mark Turpin, Suzanne Qualls. registration.

Ploughshares

• Before Groundbreak . Ploughshares . Winter 1992–1993 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071104033845/http://pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleID=3380 . November 4, 2007 .
• Photograph From Antietam . Ploughshares . Winter 1992–1993 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071104041529/http://pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleID=3379 . November 4, 2007 .

External links

• Profile at The Whiting Foundation

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Paris Review . 2009-09-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090708122821/http://www.theparisreview.org/printissue.php/prmIID/105# . 2009-07-08 . dead .
2. Web site: Threepenny: Issue 88, Winter 2002.
3. Web site: Read by Author | Ploughshares.