Background
Bell, Marvin Hartley was born on August 3, 1937 in New York City. Son of Saul and Belle (Spector) Bell.
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'Wednesday' is a perfect way to explore the development in Bell's poetry, from his earliest collections to his more recent ones. His poems are often noted by reviewers for their originality, lucidity, variety, and eloquence. His writing has been called ""ambitious without pretension,"" and Bell himself, ""an insider who thinks like an outsider.
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“Marvin Bell has the largest heart since Walt Whitman.”—Harvard Review In a recent interview Marvin Bell said, “I’ve been trying for thirty years to figure out how best to put the news into poems—what other people would call politics. But there are some hairy aesthetic questions connected to overtly political poems.” Mars Being Red is the most political book of Bell’s storied career—and one of his most beautiful. Infuriated by our country’s military aggression and destructive politics, Bell asks, What shall we do, we who are at war but are asked / to pretend we are not? What Bell has done is craft a book of urgency and insight, anger and action: . . . I am, like you, a witness to the coffins that were Viet Nam and Iraq, to a political machine that came up three lemons . . . I am the big ears and the wide eyes to whom time happened. I lived in stormy weather writing songs of love because, tell me if you know, who can help it? Marvin Bell served on the faculty at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop for over thirty years. He is the first and current poet laureate of Iowa.
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Marvin Bell is at the peak of his formidable powers. Long recognized as one of America’s liveliest poetic in-novators, he has said in a recent interview, "I want to do something beyond convention, beyond accepted levels of skill, beyond the expected, beyond the predictable, beyond the wholly welcome." Nightworks is truly beyond the usual fare, and critics have praised it as "a major event," "long overdue,"and "essential." As the definitive collection of Bell’s 40-year career, it combines new poems with choice selections from all of his previous books, including the now-infamous voice of the Dead Man: I am the poet of skulls without why or wherefore. I didn’t ask to be this or that, one way or another, just a young man of words. Words that grew in sandy soil, words that fit scrub trees and beach grass. Sentenced to work alone where there is often no one to talk to. The poetry of skulls demands complicity of the reader, that the reader put words in the skull’s mouth. The reader must put water and beer in the mouth, and music in the ears, and fan the air for aromas to enter the nostrils. The reader must take these lost heads to heart… —from "Skulls" "Marvin Bell’s career has been substantial and Nightworks reminds us just how distinctive his voice has been all along—how prophetic, how candid, how rigorously philosophical. He enlarges our understanding of what poetry can do."—The Georgia Review Marvin Bell has taught for nearly 40 years at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He is the first and current Poet Laureate of Iowa.
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English language educator poet
Bell, Marvin Hartley was born on August 3, 1937 in New York City. Son of Saul and Belle (Spector) Bell.
Bachelor, Alfred University, 1958. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Alfred University, 1986. Master of Arts, University Chicago, 1961.
Master of Fine Arts, University Iowa, 1963.
Member faculty, Writers' Workshop University Iowa, Iowa City, 1965—2005, Flannery O'Connor professor letters, 1986—2005, Iowa poet laureate, 2000—2004. Visiting lecturer Goddard College, 1970. Distinguished visiting professor University Hawaii, 1981.
Visiting professor University Washington, 1982. Faculty Pacific University, since 2004, Pacific Lutheran University, 2004-2005. Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writing fellow University Redlands, 1991-1992, 92-93.
Woodrow Wilson visiting fellow St. Mary's College of California, 1994-1995, Nebraska Wesleyan University, 1996-1997, Pacific University, 1996-1997, Hampden-Sydney College, 1998-1999, West Virginia Wesleyan College, 2000-2001, Birmingham Southern University, 2000-2001, Illinois College, 2002-2003, Bethany College, 2003-2004, Morningside College, since 2008, Augustana College, since 2008, Hiram College, since 2008. Judge Lamont Award-Academy American Poets, 1989-1991, Pushcart Prizes, 1991, 97, Western Book Awards-Western States Arts Federation, 1991, National Poetry Series, National Education Association, North Carolina Arts Council, Coordinating Council Literature Magazines, Discovery Contest-Poetry Center of 92nd St Y, New York City, Poetry Society of America, Hopwood Awards, Tulsa Arts Council, Anhinga Poetry Prize-Florida State University Press, numerous others. Distinguished poet-in-residence Wichita State University, 2004, Prague Seminar, 2002, 04.
Distinguished visiting professor Portland State University, 2007.
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Married Mary Mammosser, 1958 (divorced). Married Dorothy Murphy. Children: Nathan Saul, Jason Aaron.