Martha Rhodes (born Boston, Massachusetts) is an American poet, teacher, and publisher.
Biography Martha Rhodes was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She received her B.A. from The New School for Social Research and her M.F.A. from the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.Warren Wilson College - Catalog She has taught at The New School University, Emerson College, and at the University of California, Irvine's MFA Program.Four Way Books Website Staff Bios She teaches at the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers A founding editor of Four Way Books, she serves as Publisher and Executive Editor for the award-winning literary press.Women’s Voices for Change | Poetry Sunday: Thriving While Waiting | May 19, 2013 | Martha Rhodes Bio She has been interviewed in The New York Times,The New York Times | Art Beat | Poetry Profiles: Four Way Books | by Dana Jennings | July 17, 2014 Los Angeles Review of Books,Los Angeles Review of Books | Portrait of a Press: Four Way Books, Twenty Years On | by Jeremy Glazier American Book Review,Johns Hopkins University | Project Muse | American Book Review | Scenes | Four Way Books: An Interview with Martha Rhodes and The Best American Poetry Blog.The Best American Poetry | Meet the Press: Dante Di Stefano in Conversation with Martha Rhodes, James Fujinami Moore, Ryan Murphy, and Sally Ball of Four Way Books September 30, 2016
She is author of five poetry collections, most recently The Thin Wall (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017), The Beds (Autumn House Press, 2012), Mother Quiet (Zoo Press, 2004. Her second collection, Perfect Disappearance, won the 2000 Green Rose Prize from New Issues Press).New Issues Press > Author Page > Martha Rhodes At the Gate was released in 1995 from Provincetown Arts Press. Her books have been reviewed in The Washington Post,University of Nebraska Press | Books | Mother Quiet by Martha Rhodes | Praise Publishers Weekly,Publishers Weekly | Review of The Beds by Martha Rhodes | 11/28/2011 Rain Taxi,Rain Taxi | Vol. 6, No.1, Spring 2001 (#21) | Perfect Disappearance | Martha Rhodes | Review by Rebecca Weaver Kenyon Review,Kenyon Review On the Thin Wall by Martha Rhodes Review by Page Hill Starzinger and other venues.
She has published poems in many literary journals including AGNI, Fence, Harvard Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, The American Poetry Review,The American Poetry Review > Jul/Aug 2002 Vol 31/No.4 Barrow Street, and TriQuarterly, and in anthologies including The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American Women (Columbia University Press, 2001), and The KGB Bar Book of Poems (HarperCollins, 2000), and The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology (Bread Loaf Writer's Conference/Middlebury College, 2000).
Published works The Thin Wall (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017) The Beds (Autumn House Press 2012) Mother Quiet (Zoo Press, 2004) Perfect Disappearance (New Issues Press, 2000) At the Gate (Provincetown Arts, 1995)
References
Sources Pine Manor College > 2009 Solstice Conference Faculty Sarah Lawrence College > Undergraduate Faculty
External links Poem: Agni Online > Hose by Martha Rhodes Poem: Virginia Quarterly Review > Issue > Autumn 1992 > pp.703-704 > Poetry > Sweeping the Floor by Martha Rhodes Poems: Reading Between A and B > Four Poems by Martha Rhodes Martha Rhodes Website New Issues Press > Author Page > Martha Rhodes