Brighton, England
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) is a British-American
poet
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and the first British-born winner of the US
Library of Congress
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Witter Bynner Fellowship
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Biography
Martin Walls was born in Brighton, England in 1970 and now lives in Baldwinsville, New York with his wife, Christine, and their child Alex. A US Library of Congress Witter Bynner Fellow, he is the author of three books of poems Small Human Detail in Care of National Trust (2000)Commonwealth (2005) an The Solvay Process (2009).
In addition, Walls edits the "online anthology The Book of Snails a collection of poetry and science writing.
Walls's collaboration with photographer Philip MacCabe and graphic designer Shadric Toop can be found a smallhumandetail.com. His blog on sustainability and going green can be read a amosoneplanet.blogspot.com.
Walls's poetry has been published in ''The Nation'', ''The Ohio Review'', ''Salt Hill'', ''Epoch'', ''The Gettysburg Review'', ''Boulevard'', ''Five Points'', ''Kestrel'', ''Blackbird'', ''Commonweal'', ''
Purdue University
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, from which he holds an M.F.A. degree.
He has taught poetry writing at
Ball State University
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and th Downtown Writers Center part of the Syracuse YMCA Y Arts curriculum. He has also taught at Syracuse University, Onondaga Community College, Cazenovia College, and SUNY Cortland.
In Syracuse he was a journalist and editor at Eagle Newspapers, where he founded the Solvay-Geddes Express newspaper. As a senior editor at Bentley-Hall, Inc., he helped foun Making Music a magazine for amateur musicians. Walls also edite International Musician for th American Federation of Musicians Walls plays drums, percussion, and resonator guitar.
Walls is communications manager for th Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism at Syracuse University. He has been communications manager at th Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems and the Syracuse University Office of Community Engagement and Economic Development. He has also performed communications work for Syracuse University
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Bluebell Railway
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Awards
* 2010 Syracuse University Whitman School "40 Under 40" Award
* 2005
Witter Bynner Fellowship
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of the US Library of Congress
* 2000 A. Brohman Roth "Newcomer Award" from the Syracuse Press Club
* 1998 The Nation/"Discovery" prize
* Breadloaf Writers Conference scholarship
* Two individual artist grants from the Syracuse Cultural Resources Council