{"id":1718,"date":"2012-09-24T13:16:34","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T20:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1718"},"modified":"2018-10-10T08:48:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T15:48:22","slug":"martin-herbert-woodward-1933","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1718","title":{"rendered":"MARTIN, HERBERT WOODWARD, 1933-"},"content":{"rendered":"

Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Poet and dramatist; university professor. Born– October 4, 1933, Birmingham, Ala. Parents– David Nathaniel and Willie Mae (Woodward) Martin. Married–Sue Aultman.\u00a0 Children–two. Education– B.A., University of Toledo, 1964; M.A., State University of New York, Buffalo, 1967; M. Litt., Middlebury College, M. Litt., 1972; Carnegie-Mellon University, D.A., 1979.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Taught at the\u00a0State University of New York, Buffalo, 1966; Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, Mich., 1967-70; University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, 1970-1996 ; visiting distinguished professor of poetry, Central Michigan University, 1973.\u00a0 Associated with the Writer’s Workshop at Antioch Writer’s Conference, 1993; with the Ohio Arts Council Writer’s Workshop, 1995; consultant for the contemporary Black writers’ collection, University of Toledo, 1974.\u00a0 Published libretti, one-act operas, and poems in many journals and anthologies. Awarded emeritus status on his retirement at the University of Dayton, 1996. Received the Mellen Poetry Prize, 1999; Ohio Governor’s Award, 2002; Mark Twain Award (from the Society for Midwestern Literature) 2002.\u00a0 Awarded honorary degrees by Wright State University, 2010, and Central Michigan University, 2011.<\/p>\n

Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Contemporary Authors online; University of Dayton website<\/p>\n

Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Forms of Silence. Detroit; Lotus, 1980.<\/p>\n

Galileo’s Suns.\u00a0 Bottom Dog Press, 1999.<\/p>\n

Inscribe My Name.\u00a0 Kent State University Press, 2007.<\/p>\n

The Log of the Vigilante.\u00a0 Mellen Poetry Press, 2000.<\/p>\n

New York, the Nine Million and other poems. S.l.; Abracadabra, 1969.<\/p>\n

On the Flyleaf: Poems.\u00a0 Bottom Dog Press, 2013.<\/p>\n

Paul Laurence Dunbar, a Singer of Songs. Columbus, Ohio; State Library of Ohio, 1979.<\/p>\n

The Persistence of the Flesh. Detroit; Lotus, 1976.<\/p>\n

The Shit-Storm Poems. Grand Rapids, Mich.; Pilot Press, 1973.<\/p>\n

Three Black Writers–Plus; Catalogue of an exhibition at the Ward M. Canaday Center, March 28-June 30. Toledo, Ohio; William S. Carlson Library, University of Toledo, 1980.<\/p>\n

Editor;<\/strong><\/p>\n

Collected Novels of Paul Laurence Dunbar. Ohio University Press, 2009.<\/p>\n

In his own Voice:\u00a0 The Uncollected Works of Paul Laurence Dunbar.\u00a0 Ohio University Press, 2002.<\/p>\n

Paul Laurence Dunbar:\u00a0 Selected Poems. Penguin Poems, 2004.<\/p>\n

Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n

A collection of the papers of Herbert Woodward Martin is held by the Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections at the University of Dayton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Biography: Poet and dramatist; university professor. Born– October 4, 1933, Birmingham, Ala. Parents– David Nathaniel and Willie Mae (Woodward) Martin. Married–Sue Aultman.\u00a0 Children–two. Education– B.A., University of Toledo, 1964; M.A., State University of New York, Buffalo, 1967; M. Litt., Middlebury College, M. Litt., 1972; Carnegie-Mellon University, D.A., 1979.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Taught at the\u00a0State University of New York, Buffalo, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-m-o"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1718"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8925,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions\/8925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}