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Camille Martin is a Canadian poet and collage artist who lives in Toronto. She was born in El Dorado, Arkansas, in 1956 and spent most of her childhood in Lafayette, Louisiana. After residing in New Orleans for fourteen years, in 2005 she moved to Toronto following Hurricane Katrina. Martin is the author of four chapbooks: sesame kiosk, rogue embryo, magnus loop, and Plastic Heaven. In 2007, BookThug published her first full-length book of poems, Codes of Public Sleep. Her poetry is widely published in journals in the United States and Canada.

Martin is also co-editor and co-translator with John P. Clark of two books: Anarchy, Geography, Modernity: The Radical Social Thought of Elisée Reclus (Lanham, JD: Lexington Books, 2004) and A Voyage to New Orleans: Anarchist Impressions of the Old South (Warner, NH: Glad Day Books, 1999, 2004).

In 1980, she earned a Master of Music in Piano Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music. In 1996, she received a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from the University of New Orleans. Her thesis, a collection of poems entitled “at peril,” passed with distinction. In 2003 she received a PhD in English from Louisiana State University. Her dissertation, "Radical Dialectics in the Experimental Poetry of Berssenbrugge, Hejinian, Harryman, Weiner, and Scalapino”, won the Lewis P. Simpson Distinguished Dissertation Award. She has received grants for poetry from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the League of Canadian Poets.

Since 2006, she has taught literature and writing at Ryerson University, where she hosts a monthly edition of the literary program In Other Words at CKLN-FM.

Poetry books and chapbooks

 * Codes of Public Sleep. Toronto: BookThug, 2007.


 * sesame kiosk. Elmwood, Conn.: Potes & Poets Press, 2001.


 * rogue embryo. New Orleans: Lavender Ink, 1999.


 * magnus loop. Tucson: Chax Press, 1999.


 * Plastic Heaven. New Orleans: Single-author issue of Fell Swoop, 1996.

Other books

 * The Radical Social Thought of Elisée Reclus (co-translator and co-editor, with John P. Clark). Lanham, JD: Lexington Books, 2004.


 * A Voyage to New Orleans: Anarchist Impressions of the Old South (co-translator and co-editor, with John P. Clark). Warner, NH: Glad Day Books, 1999, 2004.

Anthologies

 * Another South: Experimental Writing in the South. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 2002. 133.


 * Other Sticky Valentines. Lazy Frog Press, 2002. 6.


 * Onsets. The Gig: Toronto, 2004. n.p..


 * From a Bend in the River. New Orleans: Runagate Press, 1998. 126-27.


 * The Maple Leaf Rag: Fifteenth Anniversary Anthology. New Orleans: Portals Press, 1994. 115.