Martin Galvin (poet)

Martin Galvin (born February 21, 1937 Philadelphia) is a prize-winning American poet and teacher.

Life

Martin George Galvin grew up in Mount Airy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended Catholic schools including St. John's High School in Manayunk, Pennsylvania, where he graduated in a class of 15. After graduating from Villanova University with a BA degree in Liberal Arts he continued his education and received his Masters and his Ph.D. degrees in American Literature from the University of Maryland, College Park while teaching literature at St. Joseph's College, Emmitsburg, Maryland. After moving to the Washington, D.C. area in the early 1970s, he continued teaching creative writing and poetry at Walt Whitman High School, Bethesda, MD. He is married to Theresa Galvin, and they have two daughters, Brenna (CA) married to Chris Sidhall and Tara (PA) married to Greg Curry, and four grandchildren.^[1]

His poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly,^[2] Best American Poetry 1997, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, D.C. Poets Against the War, Delaware Poetry Review,^[3] Four Quarters, Midwest Quarterly, Orion, Poet Lore, Poetry, Poetry East, and Texas Review.

He lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland and Ocean View, Delaware.^[4]

He currently teaches at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, Maryland.^[5]

Awards

His book of poems Wild Card was the winner of the 1989 Columbia Prize for poetry judged by Howard Nemerov.^[6] He was also the recipient of the 1992 Poet Lore Narrative Poetry Award.^[5]

Bibliography

• "PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE". Atlantic Monthly. August 1998. http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/antholog/galvin/passive.htm. 
• "THE TOAD IN THE GARDEN; SUMMER HOUSE; FISH, HERON, RIVER". Delaware Review. 2007. http://www.depoetry.com/poets/200706/galvinmartin.html. 

• Circling Out. Finishing Line Press. 2007. ISBN 9781599241456. 
• Appetites (Bogg Publications, 2000)
• Making Beds (Sedwick House, 1989)
• Wild Card (Washington Writers Publishing House, 1989)

Anthologies

• Sam Hamill, Sally Anderson, ed (2003). "Army Burn Ward". Poets against the War. Thunder's Mouth Press. ISBN 9781560255390. http://books.google.com/?id=sdxJOtDmPywC&pg=PA74&lpg=PA74&dq=Martin+Galvin+(poet)&q=. 
• James Tate, David Lehman, ed (1997). "Introductions". The Best American Poetry 1997. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9780684814520. http://books.google.com/?id=Tl9KNKvGjfkC&pg=PA72&dq=Martin+Galvin+(poet)#v=onepage&q=Martin%20Galvin%20(poet). 
• "The Poet Upstairs", Washington Writers Publishing House, 1997;
• "70 on the 70's", Ashland College, 1981;
• "Anthology of Magazine Verse", Los Angeles, 1981, 1983, 1985;
• "Songs from Unsung Worlds", Boston, 1985;

References

1. ^ Biography at WWPH site
2. ^ "The Atlantic Monthly". August 1998. http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/antholog/galvin/passive.htm. 
3. ^ "Delaware Poetry Review 2007". http://www.depoetry.com/poets/200706/galvinmartin.html. 
4. ^ http://www.pw.org/content/martin_galvin_2
5. ^ ^{a b} "biography". Writer's Center. https://www.writer.org/workshops/bio-instructor.asp?id=13694. 
6. ^ "Poet and the Poem". Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov/poetry/poetpoem.html. 

External links

• Burghers of Calais by Martin Galvin
• Audio interview on Library of Congress website

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