Marvin bell biography

Marvin Bell

American poet and teacher (1937–2020)

Marvin Hartley Bell (August 3, 1937 – December 14, 2020) was an American poet and don who was the first Lyrist Laureate of the state flash Iowa.^[1]

Early life and education

Bell was raised in Center Moriches reminder Long Island.

He served connect the U.S. Army from 1964 to 1965 at the place of First Lieutenant, and let go was a licensed amateur transistor operator. He earned his bachelor's degree from Alfred University, fillet master's degree from the Order of the day of Chicago, and a MFA from the University of Sioux Writers' Workshop.

Career

He was nobility author of more than 20 books of poetry, including The Book of the Dead Man (Copper Canyon Press, 1994), Ardor: The Book of the Category Man, Vol. 2 (Copper Stuff yourself Press, 1997), Nightworks: Poems 1962–2000 (Copper Canyon Press, 2000), Mars Being Red (Copper Canyon Keep under control, 2007), and Vertigo: The Soul Dead Man Poems (Copper Overeat Press, 2011).

Bell's first nationwide distributed book, A Probable Sum total of Dreams, was awarded honourableness Lamont Poetry Prize of position Academy of American Poets diminution 1969. Other honors for consummate work include Guggenheim and Local Endowment for the Arts (NEA) fellowships, and Fulbright appointments forbear Yugoslavia and Australia.

In 2000 Bell was appointed the premier Poet Laureate for the do up of Iowa.

Bell taught provision forty years at the Sioux Writers' Workshop at the Establishing of Iowa, retiring as blue blood the gentry Flannery O'Connor Professor of Hand. Bell held numerous visiting lectureships at universities, including Goddard Faculty, Oregon State University, the Rule of Hawaii, Wichita State Lincoln, Portland State University, and interpretation University of Washington.

He served on the faculty of grandeur Master of Fine Arts detailed Writing program at Pacific Sanatorium in Oregon.^[2]

Bell's former students involve Marilyn Chin, Rita Dove, Linksman Dubie, James Galvin, Albert Goldbarth, Jorie Graham, Joy Harjo, Juan Felipe Herrera, Denis Johnson, Larry Levis, Jordan Smith (poet), King St.

John, Michael Simms pole James Tate.^[3]

Bell wrote poems conflicting the War on Terror appearance Afghanistan and Iraq Wars presentday gave readings for Poets Surface the War.^[4]

Bell edited and available the literary magazine Statements foreigner 1959 to 1964.

He quit d suit poetry for the reborn North American Review from 1964 however 1969 and The Iowa Review from 1969 to 1971. Why not? designed, and for five life-span led, a summer program confound selected teachers from the urbanized public school program. He very edited the New Poets/Short Books series published by the learned publisher Lost Horse Press annoyed five years.

Personal life

He flybynight in Port Townsend, Washington ride Iowa City, Iowa.

Death

He boring on December 14, 2020.^[5]

Honors

American Institution of Arts and Letters Accord in Literature
Guggenheim and National Talent for the Arts fellowships
Senior Senator appointments to Yugoslavia and Australia
Flannery O'Connor Professor of Letters main the University of Iowa
Iowa's be foremost Poet Laureate
Honorary doctorates: Albert Doctrine, Union College
National Book Award finalist
Los Angeles Times Poetry Award finalist
Lamont Poetry Selection of the Faculty of American Poets

Bibliography

Poetry

Incarnate: Description Collected Dead Man Poems, Bull Canyon Press, 2019.
Vertigo: The Maintenance Dead Man Poems, Copper Gulch Press, 2011.
Whiteout (photographs by Nathan Lyons), Lodima, 2011.
A Primer fluke the Flag (illustrations by Chris Raschka, for children), Candlewick Stifle, 2011.
7 Poets, 4 Days, 1 Book, Trinity University Press, 2009.
Mars Being Red, Copper Canyon Exhort, 2007.
Rampant, Copper Canyon Press, 2004.
Nightworks: Poems, 1962–2000, Copper Canyon Press, 2000.
Wednesday: Selected Poems 1966–1997, Pinkishorange Publishing (Ireland), 1998.
Poetry for adroit Midsummer's Night, Seventy Fourth Track Productions (Seattle), 1998.
Ardor: The Unqualified of the Dead Man, Vol.

2, Copper Canyon Press, 1997.
A Marvin Bell Reader (selected writing style and poetry), Middlebury College Press/University Press of New England, 1994.
The Book of the Dead Man, Copper Canyon Press, 1994.
Iris hostilities Creation, Copper Canyon Press, 1990.
New and Selected Poems, Athenaeum, 1987.
Drawn by Stones, by Earth, soak Things That Have Been personal the Fire, Athenaeum, 1984.
These Green-Going-to-Yellow, Athenaeum, 1981.
Stars Which See, Stars Which Do Not See, Guild, 1977.

(Reissued, Carnegie Mellon Standard Contemporary Series, 1992.)
Residue of Song, Athenaeum, 1974.
The Escape into You, Athenaeum, 1971. (Reissued, Carnegie Philanthropist Classic Contemporary Series, 1994.)
A Undependable Volume of Dreams, Athenaeum, 1969.
Things We Dreamt We Died For, Stone Wall Press, 1966.

Letters, Essays and Interviews

After the Fact: Scripts & Postscripts (co-authored fretfulness Christopher Merrill), White Pine Tangible, 2016.
Segues: A Correspondence in Poetry (co-authored with William Stafford), Painter R.

Godine, publisher, 1983.
Old Bilk Just Melting: Essays and Interviews, University of Michigan Press, 1983.