Martha Collins

Martha Collins is the co-translator of Dreaming the Mountain and Black Stars . She has also published eleven volumes of poetry, most recently Casualty Reports and Because What Else Could I Do , which won the Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams Award. Her previous books of poetry include the paired volumes Day Unto Day and Night Unto Night , as well as a trilogy of works that focus on race, beginning with the book-length poem, Blue Front . Collins has published three additional...See more

Martha Collins is the co-translator of Dreaming the Mountain and Black Stars . She has also published eleven volumes of poetry, most recently Casualty Reports and Because What Else Could I Do , which won the Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams Award. Her previous books of poetry include the paired volumes Day Unto Day and Night Unto Night , as well as a trilogy of works that focus on race, beginning with the book-length poem, Blue Front . Collins has published three additional volumes of co-translated Vietnamese poetry and coedited a number of volumes, including, with Kevin Prufer, Into English: Poems, Translations, Commentaries . Founder of the creative writing program at the University of Massachusetts Boston and former Pauline Delaney Professor of Creative Writing at Oberlin College, Collins lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. See less