Charles fort new britain born black authors

Charles Fort is the author of six books of poetry and ten chapbooks including: The Town Clock Burning (St.

Andrews Press)--We Did Not Fear the Father (Red Hen Press)--Darvil, Prose Poems Book 1 (St. Andrews Press)—We Did Not Fear the Father (Carnegie Mellon University Press, reprint, Contemporary Classic)--Frankenstein was a Negro, Prose Poems Book 2 (Backwaters Press)-- Mrs.

Belladonna’s Supper Club Waltz, Book 3 (Backwaters Press) and appears in 39 anthologies and The Best American Poetry, 2001, 2003, and 2016. Fort is Distinguished Emeritus Professor at the University of Nebraska at Kearney and Founder of the Wendy Fort Foundation Theater of Fine Arts.

His extensive list of awards includes:

• Faculty Scholar Award, Southern Connecticut State University

• Outstanding Scholarship and Research Faculty Award, University of Nebraska at Kearney

• Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, honoris causa, Siena Heights University 

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