Martin George Galvin (February 21, 1937 – August 6, 2018) was a prize-winning
American
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poet and teacher. He taught at the
Writer's Center
The Writer's Center, founded in 1976, is an
independent literary center that is housed in a 12,200-square-foot (1,130 m2) facility in the arts and entertainment district of Bethesda, Maryland. The organization consists of approximately 2,500 wri ...
in
Bethesda, Maryland,
St. Joseph's College in
Emmitsburg, MD and Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda.
Life
Galvin grew up in
Mount Airy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended Catholic schools including St. John's High School,
Manayunk, Pennsylvania
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, from which he graduated in a class of 15. After graduating from
Villanova University with a BA degree in Liberal Arts, he continued his education and received his Masters and his Ph.D. degrees in
American Literature
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from the
University of Maryland, College Park while teaching literature at
St. Joseph's College, Emmitsburg, Maryland. After moving to the
Washington, D.C. area in the early 1970s, he taught creative writing and poetry at Walt Whitman High School,
Bethesda, Maryland. Before his death, he had most recently taught at the
Writer's Center
The Writer's Center, founded in 1976, is an
independent literary center that is housed in a 12,200-square-foot (1,130 m2) facility in the arts and entertainment district of Bethesda, Maryland. The organization consists of approximately 2,500 wri ...
in
Bethesda, Maryland.
Family
He and his wife, Theresa, have two daughters, Brenna and Tara. They divided their time between
Chevy Chase, Maryland
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and
Ocean View, Delaware.
Work
His poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in ''
The Atlantic Monthly'', ''
Best American Poetry 1997'', ''
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As its name suggests, it has featured poetry from the "Beltway" region of the Washington, DC area. The publication has "showca ...
'', ''
D.C. Poets Against the War'', ''
Delaware Poetry Review'', ''
Four Quarters'', ''
Midwest Quarterly'', ''
Orion'', ''
Poet Lore
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'', ''
Poetry'', ''
Poetry East'', and ''
Texas Review''.
Selected works
Articles
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Books
* 'A Way To Home: New and Selected Poems,' (Poets Choice Publishing, 2017)
* "Sounding the Atlantic," (Broadkill River Press, 2010)
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* ''Appetites'' (
Bogg Publications, 2000). OP.
* ''Making Beds'' (
Sedwick House, 1989). OP.
* ''Wild Card'' (
Washington Writers Publishing House, 1989)
Anthologies
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*"The Poet Upstairs", Washington Writers Publishing House, 1997;
*"70 on the 70's", Ashland College, 1981;
*"Anthology of Magazine Verse", Los Angeles, 1981, 1983, 1985;
*"Songs from Unsung Worlds", Boston, 1985;
Awards
His book of poems ''Wild Card'' was the winner of the 1989
Columbia Prize for poetry judged by
Howard Nemerov.
He was also the recipient of the 1992 ''
Poet Lore
''Poet Lore'' is an English-language literary magazine based in Bethesda, Maryland. Established in 1889 by Charlotte Porter and Helen Archibald Clarke, two progressive young Shakespeare scholars who believed in the evolutionary nature of literatur ...
'' Narrative Poetry Award.
References
External links
*http://www.martingalvin.com
''Burghers of Calais'' by Martin GalvinAudio interview on Library of Congress websiteInnisfree 15, fall 2012. A Closer Look: Martin Galvin, plus a selection of 20 poems
1937 births
American male poets
University of Maryland, College Park alumni
Villanova University alumni
Saint Joseph College and Mother Seton Shrine faculty
Poets from Philadelphia
2018 deaths
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