April 13 – In Person

Fred Marchant is the author of five books of poetry, the most recent of which, Said Not Said, was published by Graywolf Press and named an Honored Book by the Massachusetts Book Awards. His earlier collections include Full Moon Boat, The Looking House, and Tipping Point, winner of the 1993 Washington Prize from The Word Works. Marchant is also the editor of Another World Instead, a selection of early poems by William Stafford. He is also the co-editor with Jennifer Barber and Jessica Greenbaum of Tree Lines, an anthology of contemporary American poems about trees and forests. His work has appeared in numerous anthologies, most recently in Braving the Body, a collection of poems addressing illness and mortality. His poetry and reviews have been published in a wide variety of literary journals, and he has co-translated (with Nguyen Ba Chung) the work of several contemporary Vietnamese poets. He is an Emeritus Professor of English at Suffolk University in Boston, where he founded the university’s Creative Writing Program and Poetry Center.  He has taught, and continues to teach, poetry workshops in many venues, both here and abroad.