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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, St. Joseph's College in Emmitsburg, MD and Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda.

Life

Galvin grew up in Mount Airy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended Catholic schools including St. John's High School, Manayunk, Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in a class of 15. After graduating from Villanova University with a BA degree in Liberal Arts, he continued his education and received his Masters and his Ph.D. degrees in American Literature from the University of Maryland, College Park while teaching literature at St. Joseph's College, Emmitsburg, Maryland. After moving to the Washington, D.C. area in the early 1970s, he taught creative writing and poetry at Walt Whitman High School, Bethesda, Maryland. Before his death, he had most recently taught at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, Maryland.

Family

He and his wife, Theresa, have two daughters, Brenna and Tara. 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, D.C. Poets Against the War, Delaware Poetry Review, Four Quarters, Midwest Quarterly, Orion, Poet Lore, Poetry, Poetry East, and Texas Review.

Selected works

Articles

• "PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE". Atlantic Monthly. August 1998.
• "THE TOAD IN THE GARDEN; SUMMER HOUSE; FISH, HERON, RIVER". Delaware Review. 2007.

Books

• 'A Way To Home: New and Selected Poems,' (Poets Choice Publishing, 2017) ISBN 978-0-9972629-2-6
• "Sounding the Atlantic," (Broadkill River Press, 2010) ISBN 978-09826030-1-7
• Circling Out. Finishing Line Press. 2007. ISBN 978-1-59924-145-6.
• Appetites (Bogg Publications, 2000). OP.
• Making Beds (Sedwick House, 1989). OP.
• Wild Card (Washington Writers Publishing House, 1989) ISBN 0-931846-34-X

Anthologies

• Hamill, Sam; Anderson, Sally, eds. (2003). "Army Burn Ward". Poets against the War. Thunder's Mouth Press. ISBN 978-1-56025-539-0.
• Tate, James; Lehman, David, eds. (1997). "Introductions". The Best American Poetry 1997. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-684-81452-0.
• "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.

References

1. "MARTIN GALVIN Obituary (2018) - Bethesda, MD - The Washington Post". www.legacy.com. Retrieved 2021-05-06.
2. ^ "biography". Writer's Center. Archived from the original on 2006-10-04. Retrieved 2009-03-31.
3. Profile Archived 2009-03-01 at the Wayback Machine, washingtonwriters.org; accessed June 10, 2014.
4. Profile Archived 2018-08-30 at the Wayback Machine, pw.org; accessed June 10, 2014.
5. "The Atlantic Monthly". The Atlantic. August 1998. Archived from the original on 2008-07-08. Retrieved 2017-03-09.
6. "Delaware Poetry Review 2007". Archived from the original on 2017-03-20. Retrieved 2009-03-31.
7. "Poet and the Poem". Library of Congress. Archived from the original on 2013-01-17. Retrieved 2017-12-29.

External links

• http://www.martingalvin.com
• Burghers of Calais by Martin Galvin
• Audio interview on Library of Congress website

"Innisfree 15, fall 2012. A Closer Look: Martin Galvin, plus a selection of 20 poems

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