Charles Fort

Charles Fort is the author of six books of poetry and ten chapbooks including: The Town Clock Burning (St. Andrews Press), We Did Not Fear the Father (Red Hen Press), Darvil, Prose Poems Book 1 (St. Andrews Press), Frankenstein Was a Negro, Prose Poems Book 2 (Backwaters Press), Mrs. Belladonna's Supper Club Waltz, Book 3 (Backwaters Press). His work appears in 45 anthologies and in The Best American Poetry (2001, 2003 & 2016). Fort was Distinguished Emeritus Endowed Professor at the University of Nebraska at Kearney and Founder of the Wendy Fort Foundation Theater of Fine Arts. He has been a Yaddo and MacDowell fellow, and has received the Writer's Voice Poetry Award, an Individual Artist Award in Poetry from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Poetry Society of America Mary Carolyn Davis Memorial Award, and the Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize.