Morton Marcus

In 2003 Morton Marcus's collected verse poems, Bear Prints, is scheduled to be published by Creative Arts Book Company. His work will also appear in two important anthologies, Poets Against The War and No Boundaries: Prose Poems By 24 American Poets. Those publications mark the 79th and 80th anthologies in which his poetry has been published. New work is scheduled to appear in The Denver Quarterly, Hanging Loose, Hotel Amerika, Sentence, Natural Bridge, and Caesura (San Jose Poetry Center). The latter magazine will feature him in its Fall 2003 issue. Morton Marcus has published nine volumes of poetry and one novel, including The Santa Cruz Mountain Poems, Pages From A Scrapbook of Immigrants (Coffee House), When People Could Fly (Hanging Loose), and most recently Moments Without Names: New & Selected Prose Poems (White Pine Press, 2002) and Shouting Down The Silence: Verse Poems 1988-2001 (Creative Arts Books, 2002). Marcus has had more than 400 poems in literary journals, and his work can be found in over 80 anthologies in the United States, Europe and Australia. He has also read and taught workshops in dozens of colleges throughout the country, including several campuses of The University of California and State Universities of New York, Notre Dame, Lewis & Clark (Oregon), and Columbia. In 1999, he was named Santa Cruz County Artist of The Year. The March/April 2001 issue of The Bloomsbury Review carried a long interview with him, and the 2002 issue of Red Wheelbarrow featured his work and another long interview. A film critic as well as poet, Marcus is the co-host of the West Coast TV program CinemaScene. He lives in Santa Cruz, California, and has been co-host of KUSP radio's Poetry Show, one of the oldest poetry shows on American radio, for sixteen years.