Faculty in English
John Martone
- Professor of English
PhD, Brown University
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Born Mineola, NY. Educated Wesleyan and Brown. Poet and publisher of the poetry magazine tel-let in print and online for nearly twenty years. Martone was very always very proud to have walked on the same streets Walt Whitman did and to have applied for his first job at Whitman's paper the Long Islander. He went to college in order to study with the poet Richard Wilbur but soon found himself drawn into Rilke. Subsequent apprenticeship with Edwin Honig; followed by years of internal exile in Oklahoma and Arkansas sustained the while by correspondence with other poets, notably Larry Eigner and Cid Corman. His third book, Ocean Vows, was a product of these times. He was also active in conceptual art, with his environments, including The Buried World. Numerous collections of poetry followed the move to Illinois, including primer, and far human character, the latter a collection of concrete poems, and more recently dogwood & honeysuckle. He has traveled frequently to Vietnam and is a student of that country's culture, as well as of Chinese and Japanese civilizations. His website is www.johnmartone.com.
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