Draft:Charles O. Hartman

Charles O. Hartman (born 1949) is an American poet, critic, and co-director of the Contemporary American Poetry Archive. He has published seven books of poetry, including New and Selected Poems (Ahsahta Press, 2008) and Island (Ahsahta Press, 2004), and five books of critical prose, including Verse: An Introduction to Prosody (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015) and Free Verse: An Essay on Prosody (Princeton, 1981). His critical work includes writing on the relations between poetry and jazz and other musical forms, as well as on the prosody of free and metrical verse, on connections between poetry and computing, and on contemporary poetry.

Life
Charles O. Hartman was born in Iowa City, Iowa and raised in Texas, Missouri, and Michigan. He graduated from Harvard University with an A.B. and from Washington University in St. Louis with an M.A. and a Ph.D. He taught at Northwestern University and the University of Washington before going to Connecticut College where, beginning in 1984, he was Poet in Residence and Co-Director of Creative Writing beginning in 1984, and Lucy Marsh Haskell '19 Professor of English from 2011 until his retirement in 2022.

Awards

 * Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award, 2012
 * Connecticut Council on the Arts Award, 1994
 * Fellow, Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers, 1992
 * Fellow, MacDowell Colony, 1992
 * Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship, 1988
 * Andrews Prize in Narrative Poetry, Poet Lore, 1986
 * National Endowment for the Arts, 1984
 * National Endowment for the Humanities, 1978
 * Illinois Arts Council Literary Award, 1978
 * National Endowment for the Humanities School of Criticism and Theory, 1977
 * The Bess Hokin Prize, Poetry (magazine)|Poetry Magazine, 1976
 * National Defense Education Act Graduate Fellowship, 1971-1974
 * Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize in Poetry, Harvard University, 1970, 1971

Poetry

 * Downfall of the Straight Line, Arrowsmith Press, forthcoming 2024
 * New & Selected Poems (Ahsahta Press, 2008)
 * Island (Ahsahta Press, 2004)
 * The Long View (Wesleyan University Press, 1999)
 * Glass Enclosure (Wesleyan University Press, 1995)
 * Sentences, with Hugh Kenner (Sun & Moon Press, 1995)
 * True North (Copper Beech, 1990)
 * The Pigfoot Rebellion (David R. Godine, 1982)

Critical Prose

 * Verse: An Introduction to Prosody (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015)
 * Virtual Muse: Experiments in Computer Poetry (Wesleyan University Press, 1996)
 * Jazz Text: Voice and Improvisation in Poetry, Jazz, and Song (Princeton University Press, 1991)
 * Free Verse: An Essay on Prosody (Princeton University Press 1981; paperback 1986. Second edition, Northwestern University Press, 1996)

Edited Book

 * Wendy Battin: on the Life & Work of an American Master, ed. with Martha Collins, Pamela Alexander, & Matthew Krajniak (Unsung Masters, Gulf Coast/Copper Nickel, Pleiades, 2020)