About Charles Fort
Born 1951. Charles Fort is a poet.
Charles Fort (born 1951 New Britain, Connecticut) is an American poet.
Life Fort graduated from Bowling Green State University with an MFA in 1977. He taught at the University of Nebraska at Kearney as The Distinguished Paul W. Reynolds and Clarice Kingston Reynolds Endowed Chair in Poetry (1997β2007), and Xavier University of Louisiana.
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 Poetry Society of America award 1985 Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize The Mary Carolyn Davis Memorial Award
Works "American Gargoyle", Oyster Boy Review 13 "The Magic Man Held a Blue Crystal Ball", Oyster Boy Review 13 Afro Psalms, University of Nebraska at Kearney Press
We Did Not Fear The Father: New and Selected Poems (Red Hen Press, 2021) Mrs Belladonna's Supper Club Waltz (Backwaters Press)
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