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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.
Additional Content:
Rodger Martin talks about his work in a Hobblebush Books interview.
Interview 4/18/14, NH Public Radio
Interview in the living room of The Frost Place with NHPR's Sean Hurley for Poetry Month.
Rewilding Artists and Authors 2023 Conference, reading with Writing the Land Poets
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