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1. 1. frost.oisdata.com

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   Published on: 4/27/2008   Last Visited: 4/27/2008

   Martha Collins Martha Collins is the author of a new, book-length poem, Blue Front (Graywolf, 2006), as well as four other books of poetry: Some Things Words Can Do (1998); A History of a Small Life on a Windy Planet (1993); The Arrangement of Space (winner of the Peregrine Smith Poetry Competition, 1991); and The Catastrophe of Rainbows (1985). She has also published a chapbook, Gone So Far (2005); co-translated two collections poems from the Vietnamese, The Women Carry River Water by Nguyen Quang Thieu (1997) and Green Rice by Lam Thi My Da (2005); and edited a volume of essays on Louise Bogan (1984).
   
   Martha Collins was born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1940. She earned a B.A. at Stanford University and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. Her honors include fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Bunting Institute, as well as three Pushcart prizes and a Witter Bynner Grant for translation and a Lannan Foundation Residency Grant. She founded the creative writing program at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, and she currently holds the Pauline Delaney Chair in Creative Writing at Oberlin College. She lives in Oberlin, Ohio, and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

2. 2. Graywolf Press

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   Published on: 11/25/2007   Last Visited: 3/25/2008

   Graywolf Press is delighted to announce that BLUE FRONT by Martha Collins has been selected to receive an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. The award is given annually and recognizes outstanding works that contribute to society's understanding of racism and foster an appreciation of the rich diversity of human cultures. Collins will be honored in Cleveland on Thursday, September 6, at a ceremony hosted by The Cleveland Foundation and emceed by Jury Chair Henry Louis Gates Jr.
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   Jeff Shotts, Executive Editor at Graywolf Press said, "We couldn't be more honored that BLUE FRONT by Martha Collins has won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award.
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   Collins has written a poetry book that not only describes a major atrocity of racist violence in the history of the United States, but also examines what it means to be white in contemporary America.
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   BLUE FRONT is Martha Collins' fifth collection of poetry and was selected as one of New York Library's top 25 books of 2006. She is the author of Some Things Words Can Do, and co-translator of two volumes of poetry from the Vietnamese. She teaches at Oberlin College and lives in Oberlin, Ohio, and Cambridge, Massachusetts.
   
   The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards were established in 1935 by Cleveland poet, civic activist, and philanthropist Edith Anisfield Wolf, in order to honor her family's passion for issues of social justice.

3. 3. www.lannan.org

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   Martha Collins
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   Martha Collins
   
   Martha Collins is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Some Things Words Can Do (Sheep Meadow Press); her book-length poem Blue Front is forthcoming from Graywolf in 2006. She is also co-translator of two collections of poems from the Vietnamese: The Women Carry River Water by Nguyen Quang Thieu (UMass) and Green Rice by Lam Thi My Da from Curbstone Press.
   
   She has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bunting Institute, and three Pushcart Prizes. She is currently a Pauline Delaney Professor of Creative Writing and English at Oberlin College.