Background
Martin Dean Lammon was born on June 19, 1958, in Wilmington, Ohio, United States, to a family of teachers. He is the son of Stanley Howard Lammon, and Linda Lou (Lichtenwald) Lammon.
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Wittenberg University
Athens, Ohio 45701, United States
Ohio University
Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, United States
Juniata College
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The authenticity of feeling the feelings themselves and the subjects from which they arise the honesty with which [Martin Lammon] confronts the pain of existence and the consequences of our mortal damage and liability the evanescence of what we love our implications in the losses we live through and the chord of mixed feelings that is the bass accompaniment of our survival are all there and constantly there in his work. The authenticity of feeling the feelings themselves and the subjects from which they arise the honesty with which [Martin Lammon] confronts the pain of existence and the consequences of our mortal damage and liability the evanescence of what we love our implications in the losses we live through and the chord of mixed feelings that is the bass accompaniment of our survival are all there and constantly there in his work.
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Martin Dean Lammon was born on June 19, 1958, in Wilmington, Ohio, United States, to a family of teachers. He is the son of Stanley Howard Lammon, and Linda Lou (Lichtenwald) Lammon.
Lammon received Bachelor of Arts degree from the Wittenberg University in 1980. Two years later he obtained Master of Arts degree from the Ohio University. Finally, he became a Doctor of Philosophy at the Ohio University, in 1991.
Lammon's career began when he was appointed to the Juniata College as a visiting instructor in English in 1988, staying at that position for three years. He then moved to the Fairmont State College, where he began as assistant professor, becoming an associate professor of English. He left that college in 1997. Lammon also taught at the Ohio University and the Pennsylvania State University. Lammon founded literary journal Kestrel in 1993.
Nowadays, Lammon works as a teacher at the Georgia College and State University. Later, he founded there Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program, as well as a journal Arts and Letters.
Over the past 30 years, Lammon’s poems and essays have appeared in such periodicals as The Atlanta Review, Black Warrior Review, Chariton Review, Chelsea, Connecticut Review, Gettysburg Review, Hotel Amerika, Mid-American Review, Midwest Quarterly, Mississippi Review, New Virginia Review, Ploughshares, Poet Lore, Poets & Writers, Puerto del Sol, The Southern Review, West Branch and many others. Additionally, Lammon has helped to create publications, reading and educational opportunities for hundreds of writers, both new and experienced, unknown and accomplished.
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Lammon married Frances Elizabeth Davis on August 17, 1996.