Charles Fort will read at 4:10pm on Thursday, January 27th, in the Cheever Room in Finn House at Kenyon College. Please join us! Refreshments will be served.
Charles Fort is a Visiting Professor in Creating Writing at Oklahoma State University. His We Did Not Fear The Father (New and Selected Poems) will be published by Red Hen Press in 2012. Mrs. Belladonna’s Supper Club Waltz (New and Selected Prose Poems) Volumes 1 and 2, will be published by Backwaters Press in 2010-2011. Fort’s poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry 2003, The Best American Poetry 2000, Best of Prose Poem International, The American Poetry Review, Georgia Review, and The Carnegie Mellon Anthology of Poetry. Carnegie Mellon University Press reprinted his first book, The Town Clock Burning, under its Classic Contemporary Series. Fort’s books also include Darvil, St. Andrews Press, and Frankenstein Was A Negro, Loganhouse Press. He has received literary awards from the Poetry Society of America, Writer’s Voice (Judge: Grace Paley) Open Poetry Award, the Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize (Judge: Fred Chappell) and The Mary Carolyn Davis Memorial Award. Fort has been a panelist for the NEA Poetry Fellowships (2008) and the NEA Access to Artistic Excellence (2010).