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 38 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 novel was published in 2020: The Last Black Hippie in Connecticut.
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Charles Fort
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Region: New Britain, CT
MacDowell Fellowships: 1996
More:
www.poetcharlesfort.com
Studios
Sprague-Smith
Charles Fort worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.
In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…