Fred Marchant is an

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poet, and Professor of English and Literature at Suffolk University. He is the director of both the Creative Writing program and The Poetry Center at Suffolk University.

Life

In 1970, he became one of the first officers of the

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to be

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as a

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s in the

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. He is the author of four books of poetry, of which Tipping Point was the winner of the 1993 Washington Prize in poetry. He is a graduate of

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, and earned a PhD from The University of Chicago's Committee on Social Thought. He lives in Arlington, MA.

Published works

Full-length poetry collections * ''Tipping Point'' The Word Works, 1993, ; 2013, * ''Full Moon Boat'' Graywolf Press, 2000, * ''House on Water, House in Air'' 2002, * ''The Looking House'' Graywolf Press, 2009,

References

American male poets Living people People from Arlington, Massachusetts Poets from Massachusetts Suffolk University faculty Year of birth missing (living people) Brown University alumni University of Chicago alumni {{US-poet-stub