Martin Galvin

Martin George Galvin (February 21, 1937 – August 6, 2018) was a prize-winning American poet and teacher. He taught at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, Maryland, They divided their time between Chevy Chase, Maryland and Ocean View, Delaware.

Work His poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Best American Poetry 1997, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Delaware Poetry Review, Four Quarters, Midwest Quarterly, Orion, Poet Lore, Poetry, and Texas Review.

Selected works Articles

Books 'A Way To Home: New and Selected Poems,' (Poets Choice Publishing, 2017) "Sounding the Atlantic," (Broadkill River Press, 2010)

Appetites (Bogg Publications, 2000). OP. Making Beds (Sedwick House, 1989). OP. Wild Card (Washington Writers Publishing House, 1989)

Anthologies

"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;

Awards His book of poems, Wild Card, was the winner of the 1989 Columbia Prize for Poetry judged by Howard Nemerov. He was also the recipient of the 1992 Poet Lore Narrative Poetry Award.