Rodger Martin

Rodger Martin's fourth volume of poetry: "For All The Tea in Zhongguo: Poetry in Two Languages," was released by Hobblebush Books in 2019. His third volume of poetry, The Battlefield Guide, is a different approach to touring some of The Civil War's most important battlefields. It uses the physical locations on the battlefields of the American Civil War to reflect upon America today. Released by Hobblebush Books in 2010 and now into its second printing. The Blue Moon Series,(Hobblebush Books: 2007) was selected by Small Press Review as one of its bi-monthly picks of the year and is also into its second print run. He has been awarded an Appalachia award for poetry and a New Hampshire State Council on the Arts Fiction Fellowship. Additionally he has received fellowships from The National Endowment for the Humanities to study T.S. Eliot and Thomas Hardy at Oxford University and John Milton at Duquesne University, and two Bruce Kellner/Monadnock Fellowships to pursue his writing. His work has been published in literary journals throughout the United States and China. He and six colleagues have been translated in the book On the Monadnock: New Pastoral Poetry released in China in 2007. He is co-editor of The Granite State Poetry Series, editor emeritus of The Worcester Review, teaches journalism at Keene State College and directed New Hampshire's Poetry Out Loud Project.