Fred Marchant



Fred Marchant is an American poet and academic.

Life
Marchant is a graduate of Brown University, and earned a Ph.D. from The University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought. In 1970, he became one of the first officers of the US Marine Corps to be honorably discharged as a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War.

He lives in Arlington, Massachusetts. He is the director of both the Creative Writing program and The Poetry Center, and Professor of English and Literature, at Suffolk University. He is the author of four books of poetry

Recognition
His collection Tipping Point was the winner of the 1993 Washington Prize in poetry.

Publications
'===Poetry===
 * Tipping Point. Words Works, 1993.
 * Full Moon Boat. St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 2000.
 * House on Water, House in Air. 2002.
 * The Looking House. St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 2009.

Translated

 * Tran Dang Khoa, From a Corner of My Yard (with Nguyen Ba Chung).

Edited

 * Another World Instead: The early poems of William Stafford, 1937-1947. 2008.