Martha Jackson Kaplan
1410 Seminole Hwy.
Madison, WI 53711
608-3322698
http://www.marthakaplanpoet.com/
http://martha.kaplan@gmail.com
LITERARY RESUME
SELECTED AWARDS
Möbius, The Poetry Magazine, Issue 29, 2011 The Third Dr. Zylpha Mapp Robinson International Poetry Award, First Place “Haymarket Poems: Albert Parsons Speaks”
Möbius, The Poetry Magazine, Issue 30, 2012 Editor-in-Chief’s Award, “At Café Brecht with Norwegian poet Hanne Bramness”
Möbius The Poetry Magazine, 30th Anniversary Issue, 2012, Nominated for Pushcart Prize, “In Sichuan they dream of schools”
Poets' Choice, Triad Contest, First Place, Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, 2016 “City of Light” (unpublished)
Poets' Choice, Triad Contest, Third Place, Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, 2018 “West Fork of the Kickapoo”
SELECTED PUBLICATION IN JOURNALS (poetry unless otherwise stated)
Blue Unicorn, 2009; “An Easy Job”
Bramble, Summer, 2019 “Rock and Roll Ekphrastic”
Branch Redd Review, #2. ed. Bill Sherman, 1978, “Catalpa,” “Seven Ways Winter Goose” “Kwakiutl!”
Bending Genres, Issue 2, 2018 “Square knot, surgeons’ knot, bind or bight?” (flash fiction)
Bending Genres, Issue 9, 2019 “Rattlesnake Around the Moon” (flash fiction)
Bending Genres, Issue 20, 2021 “Ghost of My Mother Along the Atchafalaya” (flash fiction)
B(oink) Voices, 2017 “Women––Stay Alert Darkness Surrounds Us!”
Burdock Magazine 14, 2014 “Quockling”
Burdock Magazine 15, “Bernadette I like your red house” “Federico Garcia Lorca”
Cirque, A Literary Journal for the North Pacific Rim, #13, Vol.2, Summer- Fall, 2022 “Dreaming of Hokulea Along Highway One”
Echolocations: Poets Map Madison, Cowfeather Press Anthology, 2013 “Ancient Rites” “Voicing the City Strange” reprint “Winslow Lane Neighbor”
Hospital Drive; Center for Bioethics and Humanities, University of Virginia, 2012 “A Surgeon's Geography”
Hummingbird, Magazine of the Short Poem, Vol.XX, No.2, 2010 “John Muir's /silver maple tree”
20 Poets, Broadside, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, February 2010 “15 Poem”
Little Eagle Press RE/ Verse; “Giverny”
Metro Transit Bus Lines Poems, March 2015 “Move”
Möbius, The Journal of Social Change, Vol.23, No.4 Winter 2012 “Turkey-Shoot Tavern”
Möbius, The Poetry Magazine, 27th Anniversary Issue, 2009 “Giverny”
Möbius, The Poetry Magazine, 28th Anniversary Issue, 2010 “An Immodest Proposal”
Möbius, The Poetry Magazine, 29th Anniversary Issue, 2011 “In My Mother's Memory” “Berlin: Stolpersteine” “Haymarket Poems: Albert Parsons Speaks”
Möbius, The Poetry Magazine, 30th Anniversary Issue, 2012 “At Café Brecht with Hanne Bramness” “In Sichuan they dream of schools”
New Verse News, July 2013 “In Texas the word was redneck”
Nixes Mate, 2022, forthcoming, “If & When”
Open Face #1, ed. Andy Gricevich, “blenched” “clay play for Andy Jordan Paul and Ron” “Gyre II” “Wrack and Frack”
Star Line, Vol. 36.3 Summer 2013 “Millennium Stroll”
The Night Heron Barks, Winter 2021, “Ice Says Jump”
The Shepherd's Express, Milwaukee Sentinel, August 2013, “Twin Star Rocket”
Unlikely Stories, Mark V, 20th Anniversary Issue, 2018 “Sallow Surge” “Transgressions” “Kaddish in Bones: Yahad in Unum”
Unlikely Stories, Mark V, March 2018 “What to do with thread in Texas or the meaning of string” “night work in Texas” W.T. Talks Hard Time in the House”
Unlikely Stories, Mark V, February 2019 “Lines Hallucinating Like Stoned Ladders Walking in Circles” “Ladies Night at Café Trauma”
Unlikely Stories, Mark V, 2020 “in memoriam for some women” “another way drone” “thirteen ways drones”
Verse Wisconsin Online 101, Spring 2010, “Leaving Texas”
Verse Wisconsin, Vol. 2, Summer 2010 “Partly Remembered”
Verse Wisconsin Online, Issue 104, 2010 “Talking Col
Verse Wisconsin Online, February 2011, “Mister Politician Classifies His Frills or The Lean Times Blues Calls a Response”
Verse Wisconsin Online, Earthworks Edition, 2011 “Ephemera at Maryhill”
Verse Wisconsin, Issue 109. July 2012 “Winslow Lane Neighbor”
Verse Wisconsin Online: Community, Issue 109, 2012, “Winslow Lane Neighbor”
Verse Wisconsin, Issue 113. April 2014 “Voicing the City Strange”
Verse Wisconsin Online, Midwest Remix Issue 113-114 April 2014, “Madison Medley in Three Parts” “Voicing the City Strange”
Verse Wisconsin Online: It’s Political, Issue 110, 2012 “Trace-Layer––sculptor of memory” “Haymarket Poems: Chicago May 4, 1886”
Verse Wisconsin, “A Collect for a Tribe”
Wisconsin Poets' Calendar; Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, 2012 “cold ku”
Wisconsin Poets' Calendar; Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, 2014 “Rotunda with Love and Squalor”
Wisconsin Poets' Calendar, Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, 2016 “Sweet Peonies in the Garden” (originally “8/7 - -5/4”)
Wisconsin Poets' Calendar, Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, 2019 “Twin Star Rocket” (previously published poems accepted)
Wisconsin Poets’ Calendar, Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, 2021 “Kwansaba for Dreams”
Wisconsin Poets’ Calendar, Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, 2022 “the thing with feathers from my son”
Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Web archive, Poets' Choice Triad Contest Winner, 2018 “West Fork of the Kickapoo”
Woodland Pattern/ Annual Poetry Month, Blog Archive, 2016. “That Blue”
SELECED PUBLICATION IN ANTHOLOGIES
56 Days of August, An Anthology of Poetry Postcards, 2017 “Bending Words”
Ariel Anthology, 2016, “There is no easy way from the earth to the stars”
Bending Genres Anthology, 2018-2019 “Square knot, surgeons’ knot, bind or bight?” (flash fiction)
Hospital Drive, Anthology, University of Virginia, 2016. “A Surgeon's Geography”
Driftfish: A Zoomorphic Anthology, 2016, “Squid Ink”
Ecolocations: Poets' Map Madison published by Cowfeathers' Press. 2013 “Ancient Rites” “Winslow Lane Neighbor”
From Everywhere a Little, A Migration Anthology, 2019, “Gao Xingjian leaves Beijing”
Ope! A pop-up anthology by University of Wisconsin-Madison Creative Writing Program, “Things to do around Madison”
Turn Up the Volume: Poems About the States of Wisconsin, Poets for First Amendment Protection, Little Bird Press, Limited Chapbook edition, 2013 “they say history repeats”
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (Participant unless otherwise noted)
a reading eXperiment (host, Jane Carmen) Association of Writers and Writing Programs, Seattle, 2014
Festival of Language Reading, Association of Writers and Writing Programs, Minneapolis, 2015,
a reading eXperiment, (host, Jane Carmen) Association of Writers and Writing Programs, Minneapolis 2015, participant
Festival of Language Reading, Association of Writers and Writing Programs, Portland, 2019
Hot Pillow Reading, Association of Writers and Writing Programs, Washington D.C, 2017
Festival of Language Reading, Association of Writers and Writing Programs, Portland, 2019
Hot Pillow Reading, Association of Writers and Writing Programs, Portland, 2019
SELECTED READINGS AND PRESENTATIONS
Featured Reader, Poets' Monday, Linneman's Riverwest Inn, Milwaukee, 2016
Featured Reader, Poets' Monday, Linneman's Riverwest Inn, Milwaukee, 2018
Featured Reader, Thursday Poetry, Mother Fools Café, Madison June 2018
Eat Local: Read Local, Poetry Month, Cafe Hollander, Milwaukee, April 2014
Eat Local: Read Local, Poetry Month, Harvest Restaurant, Madison, April 2014
Burdock 14, Launch Reading, People's Book Co-op, Milwaukee, December 2014
Burdock 15, Launch Reading, Linnemann's Riverwest Inn, Milwaukee, January 2016
Bridge Reading, In response to the exhibition in the Light of Naples: The Art of Francesco de Mura, Chazen Museum Madison, “Pentimento”
Reading, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, "15 Poem"
Featured Reader, Mother Fool's Thursday Readings, Madison, June 2018
Featured Reader, Winter Poets Readings, alternate years, ca. 2012– 2019
Lit Fest Press Readings, Small Prestivus Literary Festival, Griffin, Indiana, 2016
The Night Heron Barks, Zoom reading, Spring, 2021
Turn Up the Volume: Poems About the States of Wisconsin; Poets for First Amendment Protection, Chapbook Launch, Woodland Pattern Books, 2011
Echolocations—Poets’ Map Madison, Launch Reading, Madison Museum Contemporary Art, 2013
Echolocations—Poets’ Map Madison Exhibit, Monona Terrace Convention Center, Madison, 2013 “Voicing the City Strange”
Memorial Reading for Susan Elbe, Arts and Literature Lab, Madison, January 2018
20 Poets Reading, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art: American Virtue, American Vice, February 2010 “Leaving Texas”
Zoomorphic Marine Series Launch Reading, Driftfish, ONCA Centre for Arts and Ecology, Brighton, UK December 2, 2016
Verse Wisconsin, Exquisite Poems and Parlor Games: Poems in Response to Real/Surreal at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, “Exquisite Corpse” with Ron Czerwein, Martha Kaplan, Andy Gricevich, Paul Baker, Jordan Dunn
Watershed Reading Series: Advice, Art and Literature Lab, February 8, 2017
SELECTED CRITICAL WRITINGS
Bramble Lit Mag, Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, Winter, 2019: “Is Stanislavsky Speaking to Poets?”
Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women’s Studies Resources, Vol. 31, Numbers 1-2, University of Wisconsin System, Winter-Spring, 2010, “Women and Literacy”
SELECTED WORKSHOPS AND RETREATS
Write by the Lake Conference, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Angela Rydell, 2009
Write by the Lake Conference, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Poetry Class with Marilyn Taylor, (former Poet Laureate, Milwaukee & State of Wisconsin) 2012
Woodland Pattern Books, Milwaukee, One Day Workshop with Hoa Nguyen, 2014
Woodland Pattern Books, Milwaukee, One Day Workshop with Layli Long Soldier & Orlando White, 2013
Private Poetics Workshops with Hoa Nguyen, (Virtual Attendee) 2014 –2021
Bending Genres Retreats, Synergia Ranch, Santa Fe, with Robert Vaughan, and Meg Tuite, 2017, 2018, 2019.
Bending Genres Retreat, Cedar Valley, Wisconsin, with Robert Vaughan and Meg Tuite, 2022
Weekend Writing Retreat, Mineral Point, Wisconsin, hosts Sarah Busse and Wendy Vardaman, (former Poets’ Laureates, Madison, Wisconsin) 2013
Writing Retreat, host Sarah Busse (former Poet Laureate, Madison) Wayne, Maine, 2016
TEACHING
Therapist, Child Guidance Center, Houston, Texas, 1974-1975
English Composition, Madison Area Technical College, 1998 -99
Teacher, Madison Public Schools: Middle School, High School, Special Education, English ca.1999-2002
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Member, Association of Writers, and Writing Programs
Member, Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets
Member, Academy of American Poets
Member, Woodland Pattern Books
Founding Member, Arts and Literature Lab, Madison, Wisconsin
MENTORS AND MAJOR PROFESSORS
Andrew Weiner, (UW Madison, English)
David Loewenstein (UW Madison, Penn State, English)
Hoa Nguyen, Private Poetics Workshops
Meg Tuite & Robert Vaughan, Bending Genres
Mentored with Larissa Shmailo
EDUCATION
Macalester College, art history and comp lit, 1966
University of Houston, BA in sociology and art history, 1966–1970
University of Houston, graduate work in sociology, 1970–72
Loyola of Chicago, Erikson Institute for Early Education, M.Ed., 1974–76
Edgewood College, Certification Special Education, English, ca.1991–2002
University of Wisconsin-Madison, post bac English, graduate work in English, ca. 1992—2002