Richard Martin

Richard Martin: is a past recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship for Poetry, founder of The Big Horror Poetry Series (Binghamton, New York, 1983–1996), author of Buffoons in the Gene Pool (Lavender Ink / Fell Swoop, 2016), Techniques in the Neighborhood of Sleep (Spuyten Duyvil, 2016) and his latest, Goosebumps of Antimatter (Spuyten Duyvil, 2018). His poems have garnered an NEA Fellowship and have appeared in the anthologies Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Cafe and American Poets Say Goodbye to the 20th Century and the magazines ACM, unarmed, Estuaries, and Skanky Possum. He is a retired Boston Public Schools principal and lives in Boston with his family.