Martha Rhodes (born Boston, Massachusetts) is an American poet, teacher, and publisher.
Biography edit
Martha Rhodes was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She received her B.A. from The New School for Social Research and her M.F.A. from the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.[1] She has taught at The New School University, Emerson College, and at the University of California, Irvine's MFA Program.[2] She teaches at the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers A founding editor of Four Way Books, she serves as Publisher and Executive Editor for the award-winning literary press.[3] She has been interviewed in The New York Times,[4] Los Angeles Review of Books,[5] American Book Review,[6] and The Best American Poetry Blog.[7]
She is author of five poetry collections, most recently The Thin Wall (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017), The Beds (Autumn House Press, 2012), Mother Quiet (Zoo Press, 2004. Her second collection, Perfect Disappearance, won the 2000 Green Rose Prize from New Issues Press).[8] At the Gate was released in 1995 from Provincetown Arts Press. Her books have been reviewed in The Washington Post,[9] Publishers Weekly,[10] Rain Taxi,[11] Kenyon Review,[12] and other venues.
She has published poems in many literary journals including AGNI, Fence, Harvard Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, The American Poetry Review,[13] Barrow Street, and TriQuarterly, and in anthologies including The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American Women (Columbia University Press, 2001), and The KGB Bar Book of Poems (HarperCollins, 2000), and The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology (Bread Loaf Writer's Conference/Middlebury College, 2000).
Published works edit
- The Thin Wall (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017)
- The Beds (Autumn House Press 2012)
- Mother Quiet (Zoo Press, 2004)
- Perfect Disappearance (New Issues Press, 2000)
- At the Gate (Provincetown Arts, 1995)
References edit
- ^ Warren Wilson College - Catalog Archived 2010-05-28 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Four Way Books Website Staff Bios
- ^ Women’s Voices for Change | Poetry Sunday: Thriving While Waiting | May 19, 2013 | Martha Rhodes Bio
- ^ The New York Times | Art Beat | Poetry Profiles: Four Way Books | by Dana Jennings | July 17, 2014
- ^ Los Angeles Review of Books | Portrait of a Press: Four Way Books, Twenty Years On | by Jeremy Glazier
- ^ Johns Hopkins University | Project Muse | American Book Review | Scenes | Four Way Books: An Interview with Martha Rhodes
- ^ The Best American Poetry | Meet the Press: Dante Di Stefano in Conversation with Martha Rhodes, James Fujinami Moore, Ryan Murphy, and Sally Ball of Four Way Books September 30, 2016
- ^ New Issues Press > Author Page > Martha Rhodes Archived 2012-03-18 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ University of Nebraska Press | Books | Mother Quiet by Martha Rhodes | Praise
- ^ Publishers Weekly | Review of The Beds by Martha Rhodes | 11/28/2011
- ^ Rain Taxi | Vol. 6, No.1, Spring 2001 (#21) | Perfect Disappearance | Martha Rhodes | Review by Rebecca Weaver
- ^ Kenyon Review On the Thin Wall by Martha Rhodes Review by Page Hill Starzinger
- ^ The American Poetry Review > Jul/Aug 2002 Vol 31/No.4