Portrait of Martha Collins

Martha Collins

Martha Collins is the author of ten collections of poetry, most recently Because What Else Could I Do (Pittsburgh, 2019), Night Unto Night (Milkweed, 2018), and Admit One: An American Scrapbook (Pittsburgh, 2016). She has co-translated four volumes of Vietnamese poetry, including Black Stars: Poems by Ngo Tu Lap (Milkweed, 2013, with the author). She founded the creative writing program at UMass Boston and taught at Oberlin College for ten years. (updated 9/2020)

AGNI has published the following work:

Chorale

Poetry by Martha Collins

Conveyance

Poetry by Martha Collins

Translating Viet Nam

Essay by Martha Collins

Sue Standing’s Gravida

Review by Martha Collins

Concrete Mixer

Poetry by Martha Collins

In the Days of

Poetry by Martha Collins

A History of Small Life on a Windy Planet

Poetry by Martha Collins

Before Spring

Poetry by Martha Collins

Outside

Poetry by Martha Collins

Martin Luther King Day

Poetry by Martha Collins

The Green House

Poetry by Martha Collins

Poem in the Fourth Dimension

Poetry by Martha Collins

Eclipse

Poetry by Martha Collins

The Catastrophe of Rainbows

Poetry by Martha Collins

The Orange Room

Poetry by Martha Collins

Things Keep Moving through This World

Poetry by Martha Collins

What Was It Like, How Does It Feel?

Poetry by Martha Collins

Session

Poetry by Martha Collins

The Man in the Blue Shirt

Poetry by Martha Collins

Letter from an Outlying Island

Poetry by Martha Collins

The Lie

Poetry by Martha Collins

The Corner’s No Corner at All But an Open Field

Poetry by Martha Collins

Earning Joy

Poetry by Martha Collins

Boston Airport

Poetry by Martha Collins

In Argentina

Poetry by Martha Collins

The Contents of Discontent: A Preface to Some Poems by Peter Klappert

Essay by Martha Collins

First Words

Poetry by Martha Collins

AGNI has published the following translations:

Street at Noon

Poetry by Tue Sy Translated from the Vietnamese by Nguyen Ba Chung and Martha Collins

The River

Poetry by Nguyen Quang Thieu Translated from the Vietnamese by Martha Collins and Nguyen Quang Thieu

Pietá Rondanini

Poetry by Richard Exner Translated from the German by Richard Exner and Martha Collins

Last Portrait

Poetry by Richard Exner Translated from the German by Richard Exner and Martha Collins
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