Title: Centennial Professor of English

Department: English

Office: Benson 400
Phone: 615.322.2618
Fax: 615.343.8028
Email: mark.jarman@vanderbilt.edu

Degrees

• M.F.A., University of Iowa, 1976
• B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz, 1974

Research Area

• Creative Writing, Poetry

Current Courses

• On Leave 2008-2009

Current Positions

• Director, Creative Writing
• Advisory Editor, The Hudson Review

Professional Societies

• Academy of American Poets
• Associated Writing Programs

Professional Honors

• Lenore Marshall/The Nation Prize of the Academy of American Poets - 1998
• National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist - 1997
• John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship - 1991-1992
• The Poets' Prize - 1991
• National Endowment for the Arts Grants - 1977, 1984, 1992
• Joseph Henry Jackson Award - 1974

Publications

• Epistles (Sarabande Books, 2007)
• To the Green Man (Sarabande Books, 2004)
• Body and Soul: Essays on Poetry (Poets on Poetry, University of Michigan Press, 2002)
• The Secret of Poetry (Story Line Press, 2001)
• Unholy Sonnets (Story Line Press, 2000)
• Questions for Ecclesiastes (Story Line Press, 1997)
• The Reaper Essays, written with Robert McDowell (Story Line Press, 1996)
• Rebel Angels: Twenty-Five Poets of the New Formalism, edited with David Mason (Story Line Press, 1996)
• Iris (Story Line Press, 1992)
• The Black Riviera (Wesleyan University Press, 1990)
• Far and Away (Carnegie-Mellon UP, 1985)
• The Rote Walker (Carnegie-Mellon UP, 1981)
• North Sea (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1978)