Morton Marcus

Who was Morton Marcus?

Morton Marcus was a poet and author having published more than 500 poems in literary journals across the country, including Poetry, TriQuarterly, Ploughshares, Chelsea, The Chicago Review, The Iowa Review, Zyzzyva, Poetry Northwest, and The Denver Quarterly. Four times his work was selected to appear in prize poem annuals. His work has appeared in over 90 anthologies in the United States, Europe, and Australia. He also has served as the poet in residence for several universities, and led workshops at colleges across America. Marcus was also a long time co-host of KUSP radio's The Poetry Show, the longest running poetry radio show in the United States.

Morton Marcus wrote eleven volumes of published poetry:

Origins

The Santa Cruz Mountain Poems

Where the Oceans Cover Us

Armies Encamped in the Fields Beyond the Unfinished Avenues

Big Winds, Glass Mornings, Shadows Cast by Stars

Pages from a Scrapbook of Immigrants

When People Could Fly

Shouting Down the Silence: Verse Poems, 1988–2001