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Casualty Reports published!

October 12, 2022 By Martha Collins

Martha Collins’s eleventh book of poems, Casualty Reports, was published in the Pitt Poetry Series on October 11, 2022. The press describes the book as “a lament for the casualties […]

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Casualty Reports: New Book to be published in October 2022 in the Pitt Poetry Series

March 10, 2022 By Martha Collins

Stylistically innovative, deeply moving, carefully researched, Martha Collins’s eleventh volume of poetry combines her well-known attention to social issues with the elegiac mode of her previous book. She focuses here on […]

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Article about my books by Ruth Williams

September 28, 2021 By Martha Collins

Ruth Williams has published, in Literary Imagination, a brilliant and thorough discussion of my three books of poetry that focus on race: Blue Front, White Papers, and Admit One: An […]

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Interview with Cate Lycurgus

March 3, 2021 By Martha Collins

This interview with Cate Lycurgus, published in 32 Poems Online, includes conversation about most of my recent books, from Blue Front (2006) through Night Unto Night (2018). Go here to […]

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Three poems up on Adroit Journal 36

February 2, 2021 By Martha Collins

Go here to see the poems and hear me read them.

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“Lamentations” on Plume Poetry

February 2, 2021 By Martha Collins

A five-part poem on gun violence (with some commentary elsewhere in issue) on Plume Poetry.

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New Poem up on Bath Magg

September 6, 2020 By Martha Collins

A new “white paper” (not in my White Papers book) up on the British online journal Bath Magg

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William Carlos Williams Award

May 13, 2020 By Martha Collins

My tenth book, Because What Else Could I Do, has just won the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award. The judge was Alice Fulton. Here is her citation: […]

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Lannan Foundation Residency

October 21, 2019 By Martha Collins

I will be in Marfa, Texas on a Lannan Foundation residency from January 11-February 17, 2020. Looking forward!

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First Review of Because What Else Could I Do in Booklist

September 18, 2019 By Martha Collins

In this deeply personal book (initially not intended for publication), poet Collins (Admit One, 2016) steps away from her usual explorations of the larger social circumstances in which we live—and […]

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Because What Else Could I Do: just published!

March 9, 2019 By Martha Collins

Because What Else Could I Do is a sequence of fifty-five untitled short poems, almost all of them addressed to my husband following his unexpected death in 2016.  I wrote them […]

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Summer Workshop

March 9, 2019 By Martha Collins

Chautauqua NY I will be teaching a week-long workshop this summer from June 23-29 in Chautauqua, New York. See the Events page of this website for information.

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