Martin Willitts Jr.

Martin Willitts Jr won the 2012 Big River Poetry Review’s William K. Hathaway Award ; 2013 Bill Holm Witness Poetry Contest; 2013 “Trees” Poetry Contest; 2014 Broadsided award; 2014 Dylan Thomas International Poetry Contest; and, Rattle Ekphrastic Challenge, June 2015, Editor’s Choice.

He has over 20 chapbooks including “Van Gogh’s Sunflowers for Cezanne” (Finishing Line Press, 2010), “Secrets No One Wants To Talk About” (Dos Madres Press, 2011), “Playing The Pauses In The Absence Of Stars” (Main Street Rag, 2012), “City Of Tents” (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2014), and “Late All Night Sessions with Charlie “the Bird” Parker and the Members of Birdland, in Take-Three” (A Kind Of a Hurricane Press, 2015).

He has 9 full-length books including “The Heart Knows, Simply, What It Needs: Poems based on Emily Dickinson, her life and poetry” (Aldrich Press, 2012), National Ecological Award winner for “Searching for What You Cannot See” (Hiraeth Press, 2013), “Irises, the Lightning Conductor For Van Gogh's Illness” (Aldrich Press, 2014), and “God Is Not Amused with What You Are Doing in Her Name” (Aldrich Press, 2015).

Martin Willitts Jr forthcoming poetry books include “How to Be Silent” (FutureCycle Press, 2016), and “Dylan Thomas and the Writer’s Shed” (FutureCycle Press, 2017).