Charles Fort (born 1951
New Britain, Connecticut) is an American
poet
A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems ( oral or wri ...
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Life
Fort graduated from
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green State University (BGSU) is a public research university in Bowling Green, Ohio. The main academic and residential campus is south of Toledo, Ohio. The university has nationally recognized programs and research facilities in the ...
with an MFA in 1977.
He taught at the
University of Nebraska at Kearney
The University of Nebraska at Kearney (UNK) is a campus of the public University of Nebraska system and located in Kearney, Nebraska. It was founded in 1905 as the Nebraska State Normal School at Kearney.
History
In March 1903 the Nebraska Sta ...
as The Distinguished Paul W. Reynolds and Clarice Kingston Reynolds Endowed Chair in Poetry (1997–2007), and
Xavier University of Louisiana
Xavier University of Louisiana (also known as XULA) is a private, historically black, Catholic university in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is the only Catholic HBCU and, upon the canonization of Katharine Drexel in 2000, became the first Cathol ...
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His work has appeared in ''Callaloo'', ''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
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Poetry Society of America
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award
* 1985 Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize
* The Mary Carolyn Davis Memorial Award
Works
"American Gargoyle", ''Oyster Boy Review 13''
*'' Afro Psalms'', University of Nebraska at Kearney Press
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* We Did Not Fear The Father: New and Selected Poems (Red Hen Press
Red Hen Press is an American non-profit press located in Pasadena, California, and specializing in the publication of poetry, literary fiction, and nonfiction. The press is a member of the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses, and was a final ...
, 2021)
* Mrs Belladonna's Supper Club Waltz (Backwaters Press)
Anthologies
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References
External links
"Darvil Meets Little Black Sambo in Nebraska—A Poetry Performance", ''People of Color in Predominantly White Institutions (1998)''
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1951 births
Writers from New Britain, Connecticut
American male poets
Bowling Green State University alumni
MacDowell Colony fellows
Living people