Fred Marchant

Fred Marchant
Nationality American
Alma mater Brown University;
University of Chicago
Genre Poetry

Fred Marchant is an American poet, and Professor of English and Literature at Suffolk University.[1] He is the director of both the Creative Writing program and The Poetry Center at Suffolk University.

Life

In 1970, he became one of the first officers of the US Marine Corps to be honorably discharged as a conscientious objectors in the Vietnam war.[2]

He is the author of four books of poetry, of which Tipping Point was the winner of the 1993 Washington Prize in poetry. He is a graduate of Brown University, and earned a PhD from The University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought.[2]

He lives in Arlington, MA.

Published works

Full-length poetry collections

References


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