Charles Fort is the author of six books of poetry and ten chapbooks including: The Town Clock Burning (St. Andrews Press)--We Did Not Fear the Father (Red Hen Press)--Darvil, Prose Poems Book 1 (St. Andrews Press)—We Did Not Fear the Father (Carnegie Mellon University Press, reprint, Contemporary Classic)--Frankenstein was a Negro, Prose Poems Book 2 (Backwaters Press)-- Mrs. Belladonna’s Supper Club Waltz, Book 3 (Backwaters Press) and appears in 39 anthologies and The Best American Poetry, 2001, 2003, and 2016. Fort is Distinguished Emeritus Professor at the University of Nebraska at Kearney and Founder of the Wendy Fort Foundation Theater of Fine Arts.
His extensive list of awards includes:
Faculty Scholar Award, Southern Connecticut State University
Outstanding Scholarship and Research Faculty Award, University of Nebraska at Kearney
Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, honoris causa, Siena Heights University
Front Street News, Produce Your Own Dream Award In Recognition of Excellence in Personal, Professional, and Civic Achievement for the Benefit of Self and Others
Yaddo Fellow 2019--MacDowell Fellow 1996--The Writer’s Voice Poetry Award “On Being Invisible” (For Ralph Ellison) Judge, Grace Paley 1996--Individual Artist Award in Poetry Connecticut Commission on the Arts manuscript-in-progress Hollow Ground 1992--Poetry Society of America Mary Carolyn Davis Memorial Award “Born On A River” (For Poem Best Set To Music) 1990—Libretto “Born On A River” Commissioned Poem Thirty Piece Orchestra and Choir Wilmington, North Carolina's 250th Anniversary Thalian Hall 1989--Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize “The Writer At His Desk” Judge, Fred Chappell 1985.
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“Charles Fort has found an utterly precise and moving idiom for things large and small, ones that would – before Mrs. Belladonna’s Supper Club Waltz — have seemed beyond expression. He is matchless.”