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Martha Rhodes (born Boston, Massachusetts) is an American poet, teacher, and publisher.

Biography

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 currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and at the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers and she will be teaching at the Poetry Seminar for The Frost Place in August, 2021.[3] She is a founding editor and the director[4] of Four Way Books, a literary press in New York City, where she lives with her husband.[5] She has been interviewed in The New York Times,[6] Los Angeles Review of Books,[7] American Book Review,[8] and The Best American Poetry Blog.[9]

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).[10] At the Gate was released in 1995 from Provincetown Arts Press. Her books have been reviewed in The Washington Post,[11] Publishers Weekly,[12] Rain Taxi,[13] Kenyon Review,[14] and other venues.

She has published poems in many literary journals including AGNI, Fence, Harvard Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, The American Poetry Review,[15] 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 (Harper Collins, 2000), and The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology (Bread Loaf Writer's Conference/Middlebury College, 2000).

Published works

• 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, 1999)

References

Sources

• Pine Manor College > 2009 Solstice Conference Faculty
• Sarah Lawrence College > Undergraduate Faculty

External links

• Poem: Agni Online > Hose by Martha Rhodes
• Poem: Virginia Quarterly Review > Issue > Autumn 1992 > pp.703-704 > Poetry > Sweeping the Floor by Martha Rhodes
• Poems: Reading Between A and B > Four Poems by Martha Rhodes
• Martha Rhodes Website
• New Issues Press > Author Page > Martha Rhodes

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