Richard Martin (5)

[from Spuyten Duyvil website]
Richard Martin is the author of Dream of Long Headdresses: Poems from a Thousand Hospitals (Signpost Press, 1988), White Man Appears on Southern California Beach (Bottom Fish Press, 1991), Modulations (Asylum Arts, 1998), Marks (Asylum Arts, 2002), boink! (Lavender Ink, 2005), Sideways (Obscure Publications, 2004), Strip Meditation (Igneus Press, 2009), Altercations in the Quiet Car (Lavender Ink /Fell Swoop, 2010), Under the Sky of No Complaint (Lavender Ink /Fell Swoop, 2013), Fungo Appetite (unarmed chapbooks, 2014), and Buffoons in the Gene Pool (Lavender Ink /Fell Swoop, 2016). Martin is a past recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship for Poetry and founder of The Big Horror Poetry Series (Binghamton, New York, 1983-1996). He lives in Boston with his family and recently retired as a principal in the Boston Public Schools.