Marthe Reed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BIOGRAPHY

 

 

 

 

Marthe Reed received her creative graduate training at Brown University’s Creative Writing Program where she worked with poets Michael Harper and Keith Waldrop, and with Rosmarie Waldrop at Burning Deck Press. She has an M.A. in English and American Literature from U.C. San Diego. Newly relocated to Lafayette, she spent the last seven years in Perth, Western Australia. Her work has most recently appeared in Sulfur, Sugar Mule, and The West Australian.

 

BRIEF CURRICULUM VITAE

Publications

Poetry

Sulfur. Number 44, Spring 1999. One poem.

Southern Review. Fall Issue, 1996. One poem.

The End Review, Volume I. Two poems.

Small Pond. Volume V.XXXII, Number 3, Fall 1995. Three poems.

Charlotte Poetry Review. Volume V, No. 3, February 1995. One poem.

WRIT. Number 26, 1994. Seven poems.

The Pittsburgh Quarterly. Volume 3, No. 2, Spring 1993. Three poems.

Writer's Forum. Volume 19, 1993. One poem.

Slant. Summer 1987. One poem.

The Green Mountains Review. No. 15, Spring 1986. Two poems.

Toyon. Number 32, Spring 1986. Two poems.

Clerestory. Volume II, Issue 1, Fall 1986. One poem.

Brown Journal of the Arts. Volume I, Issue 1, Fall 1984. Three poems.

Skins and Bones: Poems 1979-87." The Archive Newsletter, Number 44, Winter 1990.

Non-fiction

Reed, M. N., (2000), “Looking For No Name Woman.” Sugarmule, Issue 5: http://members.nbci.com/_XMCM/sugarmule/issue5.htm.

Travel Writing

Reed, M.N., (2000), “Wildflower Wonderland.” The West Australian Travel, Thursday August 10, 2000.

 

 

 

On Teaching/Writing

A primary set of concerns I have as a writer, and to some extent as a writing teacher, are the ways place or a sense of place affords writing. Anthropologist Clifford Geertz writes of place as being “experience near” and writing as “experience distant.” In attending to place and our relation to place, is it possible to make what is necessarily “distant” “near”? To articulate a relationship to a particular place, questions of language and the origins of that language arise. Does place give rise to the human voice, articulating its experience? Response, recognition, communion, difference. Is possible to imagine a geometry describing the relation between speaker and place, speaker and moment, a physics of that conjunction?

 

 

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