is a touring artist for the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA). He has received an Appalachia Award for poetry and a New Hampshire State Council on the Arts award for fiction. He has received fellowships from The National Endowment for the Humanities to study T. S. Eliot and Thomas Hardy at Oxford University and John Milton at Duquesne University. His work has been published in literary journals throughout the United States and China where he also wrote a series of essays on American poetry for
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He and six colleagues are the focus of the book
On the Monadnock: New Pastoral Poetry (Chinese Drama Press: 2006, Bejing). Martin often collaborates with other artists. His Portsmouth Voice and Vision project, Anthem Concatenus, with painter Vicki Arico now hangs in the Portsmouth Court House. He is the managing editor of
The Worcester Review and teaches journalism at Keene State College. As a journalist, he regularly covered Democratic National Conventions between 1976 and 2004. Additionally, Martin directs The Milton Ensemble, dedicated to the dramatic presentation of
Paradise Lost by John Milton. This is his second collection from Hobblebush Books.
The Blue Moon Series was released in 2007 and chosen by Small Press Review as one of its summer picks.
Chad Gowey was born in 1987 and was raised in Princeton, Massachusetts. He is currently attending the Rhode Island School of Design, specializing in Illustration. Working in paint, ink, digital media and beyond, Chad is fascinated by everything from the masters to the fantastic. He is the winner of several Scholastic Art awards, and has earned recognition at the local and national level for his achievement in the arts.
