Mark Jarman is
Centennial Professor of English at Vanderbilt University in
Nashville, Tennessee. He has a B.A. (1974) from the University of
California at Santa Cruz; he has an M.F.A. (1976) from the
University of Iowa. He is the author of a chapbook and nine books of
poetry: Tonight Is the Night of the Prom (Three Rivers Press, 1974),
North Sea (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1978), The Rote
Walker (Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1981), Far and Away
(Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1985), The Black Riviera
(Wesleyan University Press, 1990), Iris (Story Line Press, 1992),
Questions for Ecclesiastes (Story Line Press, 1997), Unholy Sonnets
(Story Line Press, 2000), To the Green Man (Sarabande Books, 2004),
and Epistles (Sarabande Books, 2007). With David Mason, he has
edited Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism (Story Line
Press, 1996). Jarman’s awards for poetry include a Joseph Henry
Jackson Award, three grants from the NEA, and a fellowship from the
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. His book The Black
Riviera won the 1991 Poets’ Prize. Questions for Ecclesiastes was a
finalist for the 1997 National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry
and won the 1998 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of
American Poets and The Nation magazine.
His poetry and essays have been published widely in such periodicals
and journals as The American Poetry Review, The Gettysburg Review,
The Hudson Review, The New Yorker, Poetry, The Yale Review, and The
Southern Review. A collection of Jarman’s essays, The Secret of
Poetry, was published by Story Line Press in 2001. Another
collection, Body and Soul: Essays on Poetry, was published in 2002
in the University of Michigan’s Poets on Poetry series.
Mark Jarman is
Centennial Professor of English at Vanderbilt University in
Nashville, Tennessee. He has a B.A. (1974) from the University of
California at Santa Cruz; he has an M.F.A. (1976) from the
University of Iowa. He is the author of a chapbook and nine books of
poetry: Tonight Is the Night of the Prom (Three Rivers Press, 1974),
North Sea (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1978), The Rote
Walker (Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1981), Far and Away
(Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1985), The Black Riviera
(Wesleyan University Press, 1990), Iris (Story Line Press, 1992),
Questions for Ecclesiastes (Story Line Press, 1997), Unholy Sonnets
(Story Line Press, 2000), To the Green Man (Sarabande Books, 2004),
and Epistles (Sarabande Books, 2007). With David Mason, he has
edited Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism (Story Line
Press, 1996). Jarman’s awards for poetry include a Joseph Henry
Jackson Award, three grants from the NEA, and a fellowship from the
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. His book The Black
Riviera won the 1991 Poets’ Prize. Questions for Ecclesiastes was a
finalist for the 1997 National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry
and won the 1998 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of
American Poets and The Nation magazine.