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Updated 5/4/2024

Rodger Martin

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    NH

Institution/Business Type: Artist / Creative (Individual)

     Poet and editor Rodger Martin exhibits the "Power of the Word" for students and audiences of all ages. His workshops and performances often incorporate song to enhance language's rich oral tradition. He received the 2024 Stanley Kunitz Medal from the Worcester County Poetry Association for his commitment to poetry.  He was won awards and fellowships from the NHSCA, NEH,  Appalachia, and Hongzhou, China's Prominent Figure Award. Hobblebush released his fourth book, For All The Tea in Zhōngguó: Poems in Two Languages, in the spring of 2019 with poems printed in both English and Mandarin.  He recently has begun presenting a power-point lecture title "Return to Vietnam" which chronicles in photographs, poetry ,and speech a return trip to the Vietnamese locations he served upon fifty years ago.
     Residencies include The American Renga program which adapts the ancient Chinese/Japanese renga poetic form as a basis for integrating poetry, art, music and other disciplines such as science and history into a single, collaborative work of art. Extending the Metaphor is a second residency designed to integrate visual art, poetry and music into a performance piece. 
     His readings from The Battlefield Guide use the Civil War battlefields of Gettysburg, Harpers Ferry, and Antietam as bridges to link history with contemporary life.  
      Martin teaches journalism and creative writing at Keene State College and co-advises its national award-winning newspaper, The Equinox.   

Find Me

Rodger Martin
Job Title: Poet, editor, journalist, teacher
Phone: 603-525-4715
Address:
Monadnock Pastoral Poets & Writers
30 North Road
Hancock, NH 03449

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About

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Artist / Creative (Individual)

Legal Status:

Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship

Year Founded:

1990

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Artist / Creative (Individual)

Legal Status:

Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship

Year Founded:

1990

Disciplines

Primary Discipline:

Literary Arts - Poetry

Additional Disciplines:

  • Multi-Disciplinary

Activities and Services

Activities and Services:

  • Arts Criticism / Journalism
  • Arts and Health
  • Audio or Video Recording
  • Community Arts
  • Consulting - Organizational Capacity
  • Creation of a Work of Art (Including Commissions)
  • Curriculum Development
  • Public Art Projects (In Free, Public Spaces)
  • Residency - Community
  • Residency - In School
  • Writing Services
  • Workshops / Demonstrations / Master Class

Communities

Populations Engaged:

  • Adults
  • Elders
  • Families
  • General Public
  • Immigrant Populations
  • Nonprofits
  • People with Disabilities
  • School Groups
  • Teens
  • Veteran/Active Duty Military Personnel
  • Youth-At-Risk

Geographic Reach:

  • Town / City
  • County
  • Multi-County Region
  • State
  • Multi-State Region
  • National
  • International

Media Gallery

I Have Worked With

Affiliations and Accomplishments

Professional Associations

Professional Associations:

  • Worcester County Poetry Association
  • New England Poetry Society
  • New Hampshire State Council on the Arts
  • Worcester County Poetry Association
  • Poetry Society of New Hampshire
  • College Media Association
  • Keene State College Adjunct Association

Professional Associations

Professional Associations:

  • Worcester County Poetry Association
  • New England Poetry Society
  • New Hampshire State Council on the Arts
  • Worcester County Poetry Association
  • Poetry Society of New Hampshire
  • College Media Association
  • Keene State College Adjunct Association

Awards

Awards:

  • Appalachia award, poetry
  • WCPA's 2024 Stanley Kunitz Medal
  • Council for Basic Ed. Fellow, Milton Studies
  • Portsmouth Poet Laureate Voice and Vision finalist
  • NEH Fellowships to study at Oxford (Eliot & Hardy) and Duquesne (Paradise Lost)
  • Pushcart nominations, poetry
  • Kellner/Monadnock Writing Fellowship recipient, 2015-2019
  • Prominent Figure Award, West Lake Arts Festival, Hangzhou, PRC
  • NHSCA Fellow in fiction

Education

Education:

  • MED Keene State College

Artist Info

Teaching Artist

Teaching Settings:

  • Afterschool Program
  • Arts and Cultural Center / Venue
  • Community Site / Center
  • Corporate Business
  • Healthcare Facility
  • School / University

Ages Served:

  • Elementary School-age
  • Middle School-age
  • High School-age
  • College-age
  • Adults

Subject Areas:

  • Arts Integration - English Language / Literacy
  • Arts Integration - History and Social Science
  • Literature

Fee range:

$175 - $1,000

Teaching Artist

Teaching Settings:

  • Afterschool Program
  • Arts and Cultural Center / Venue
  • Community Site / Center
  • Corporate Business
  • Healthcare Facility
  • School / University

Ages Served:

  • Elementary School-age
  • Middle School-age
  • High School-age
  • College-age
  • Adults

Subject Areas:

  • Arts Integration - English Language / Literacy
  • Arts Integration - History and Social Science
  • Literature

Fee range:

$175 - $1,000

State Arts Agency Roster Artist

  • New Hampshire Education Roster
  • New Hampshire Arts in Health, Health & Healing Roster

Touring Artist

NEST Eligible Artist

Technical Requirements:

  • Smaller venues, n/a; larger venues --sound and visual system helpful.

Fee Range:

$175 - $1,000

State of Residence:

New Hampshire

Minimum Number of Performers:

1

Maximum Number of Performers:

8