Charles Fort is the author of six books of poetry. He appears in 38 anthologies. Fort’s books include: The Town Clock Burning (St. Andrews Press)—We Did Not Fear the Father (Red Hen Press)—Darvil, Prose Poems Book 1 (St. Andrews Press)—We Did Not Fear the Father (Carnegie Mellon University Press, reprint, Contemporary Classic)—Frankenstein was a Negro, Prose Poems Book 2 (Backwaters Press)—Mrs. Belladonna’s Supper Club Waltz, Book 3 (Backwaters Press)—and ten chapbooks, including Afro Psalms, As the Lilac Burned the Laurel Grew, The Poet’s Wife, Blues of a Mumbling Train, Immortelles, The Vagrant Hours (Reynolds Chair Chapbooks). Fort appears in The Best American Poetry, 2000, 2003, and 2016. He is Distinguished Emeritus Professor at the University of Nebraska at Kearney and Founder of the Wendy Fort Foundation Theater of Fine Arts. In 2017, Fort completed One Had Lived in a Room and Loved Nothing, 220 Villanelles, including sequences on Bergman films and Dante's Inferno. Fort’s first novel, The Last Black Hippie in Connecticut, will be published in 2020.
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