Mark McMorris (poet)

'''Mark McMorris (born 1960) is a Jamaican-born American poet. "Mark McMorris," Academy of American Poets, Poets.org, Jan. 28, 2012.

Life
McMorris was born in Kingston, Jamaica. He attended Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where he received an M.A. in Creative writing and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature.

He has

Recognition
His first full-length poetry collection, The Black Reeds, won the Contemporary Poetry Series Prize of the Univrsity of Georgia Press. He won the Gertrude Stein Award in Innovative American Poetry, was nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize, and was a finalist for the National Poetry Series in 1999 and 2000.

Publications

 * Palinurus Suite. 1992.
 * Moth-Wings. 1996.
 * The Black Reeds. 1997.
 * The Blaze of the Poui. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2003.
 * The Café at Light. Roof Books, 2004.
 * Entrepôt. Coffee House Press, 2010.

The Blaze of the Poui (2003), which was selected by C. D. Wright for the 2002 Contemporary Poetry Series and was also a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; The Black Reeds(1997), winner of the Contemporary Poetry Series prize from the University of Georgia Press; Moth-Wings(1996), and Palinurus Suite(1992).