Camille Martin

Early life and education

Camille Martin was born in El Dorado, Arkansas, in 1956 and spent most of her childhood in Lafayette, Louisiana. In 1980, she earned a Master of Music in Piano Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music. In 1996, she received a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from the University of New Orleans. Her thesis, a collection of poems entitled at peril, passed with distinction. In 2003, she received a PhD in English from Louisiana State University. Her dissertation, Radical Dialectics in the Experimental Poetry of Berssenbrugge, Hejinian, Harryman, Weiner, and Scalapino,^[3] won the Lewis P. Simpson Distinguished Dissertation Award. She has received grants for poetry from the Louisiana Division of the Arts,^[4] the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the Toronto Arts Council, and the League of Canadian Poets.^[5]

Career

Martin is the author of five full-length poetry collections: Blueshift Road (Rogue Embryo Press, 2021),Looms (Shearsman Books, 2012), Sonnets Shearsman Books, 2010),^[6][7] Codes of Public Sleep^{[permanent dead link][8]} (Toronto: BookThug, 2007), and Sesame Kiosk (Elmwood, Conn.: Potes & Poets, 2001). She has also published four chapbooks: If Leaf, Then Arpeggio,^[9][10] Rogue Embryo, Magnus Loop, and Plastic Heaven.^[1] Her poetry is widely published in journals in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom, and has been translated into Spanish and German.

Martin is also co-editor and co-translator with John P. Clark of two books: Anarchy, Geography, Modernity: The Radical Social Thought of Elisée Reclus (Lanham, JD: Lexington Books, 2004)^[11] and A Voyage to New Orleans: Anarchist Impressions of the Old South (Warner, NH: Glad Day Books, 1999, 2004).^[12]

From 2006 to 2010, she taught literature and writing at Ryerson University,^[13] where she served as an editor for the literary journal White Wall, co-curated the poetry reading series Live Poets Society, and hosted a monthly edition of the literary program In Other Words on CKLN-FM.^[14]

Martin regularly writes essays about poetry and the visual arts at her blog, Rogue Embryo.^[15] She also maintains a website, CamilleMartin.ca,^[16] about her poetry and collage.^[17]

Poetry books and chapbooks

• Blueshift Road. Toronto: Rogue Embryo Press, 2021.
• Looms. Bristol, U.K.: Shearsman Books, 2012.
• Sonnets. Exeter, U.K.: Shearsman Books, 2010.
• Codes of Public Sleep. Toronto: BookThug, 2007.
• Sesame Kiosk. Elmwood, Conn.: Potes & Poets Press, 2001.
• If Leaf, Then Arpeggio. Ottawa: Above/Ground Press, 2011.
• Magnus Loop. Tucson: Chax Press, 1999.
• Rogue Embryo. New Orleans: Lavender Ink, 1999.
• Plastic Heaven. New Orleans: Single-author issue of Fell Swoop, 1996.

Other books

• A Voyage to New Orleans: Anarchist Impressions of the Old South (co-translator and co-editor, with John P. Clark). Warner, NH: Glad Day Books, 1999, 2004.
• The Radical Social Thought of Elisée Reclus (co-translator and co-editor, with John P. Clark). Lanham, JD: Lexington Books, 2004.

Anthologies

• Nine from Sonnets (in Spanish translation). La alteración del silencio: Poesía norteamericana reciente (The Alteration of Silence: Recent North American Poetry). Eds. William Allegrezza and Galo Ghigliotto. Santiago, Chile: Editorial Cuneta, 2010.
• Onsets. The Gig: Toronto, 2004. n.p..
• Another South: Experimental Writing in the South. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 2002. 133.
• Other Sticky Valentines. Lazy Frog Press, 2002. 6.
• From a Bend in the River. New Orleans: Runagate Press, 1998. 126-27.
• The Maple Leaf Rag: Fifteenth Anniversary Anthology. New Orleans: Portals Press, 1994. 115.