Mark F. Jarman

Poet

Birthday June 5, 1952

Birth Sign Gemini

Birthplace Kentucky

Age 71 years old

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About

American poet, literary critic, editor, and academic often associated with the New Formalism movement. His award-winning poetic works include The Black Riviera and Questions for Ecclesiastes.

Before Fame

His father was a minister whose clerical work moved his Kentucky-bred family to California and Scotland.

Trivia

He received the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for a 1997 work entitled Questions for Ecclesiastes.

Family Life

He married singer and University of California-Santa Cruz classmate Amy Jarman. The couple became parents to two daughters.

Associated With

He and poet Rita Dove were classmates in the Iowa Writers' Workshop's Master of Fine Arts program in the mid-1970s.