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Mark Jarman was born on 5 June, 1952 in Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States, is an American poet and critic. Discover Mark Jarman's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 71 years old?

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Age 71 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 5 June, 1952
Birthday 5 June
Birthplace Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States
Nationality United States

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1954

His parents, both Californians, moved back to California in 1954 and settled in Santa Maria, where his father served First Christian Church.

1958

In 1958, responding to a call from his denomination, Mark's father moved his wife Bo Dee, his son, and daughter Katie, to Scotland to serve a small church in Kirkcaldy, Fife, a linoleum factory town on the Firth of Forth across from Edinburgh.

The three years he spent there were formative ones for the poet.

1961

The family returned to California in 1961, where his father served South Bay Christian Church in Redondo Beach and his sister Luanne was born.

1970

In 1970, Jarman entered the University of California at Santa Cruz and earned a B.A. with highest honors in English literature in 1974.

There he met his wife, soprano Amy Kane Jarman and his friend and long-time collaborator, Robert McDowell.

While at U.C.S.C., he studied with the poet and editor George Hitchcock (poet) and the short story writer and poet Raymond Carver.

1974

In 1974, Jarman entered the Iowa Writers' Workshop and earned an M.F.A. in poetry in 1976.

His classmates included poets Chase Twichell, Brenda Hillman, James Galvin, and Rita Dove.

1976

In 1976, he was hired to teach creative writing at Indiana State University in Evansville.

1978

In 1978, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts allowed him to quit his job and live in Italy where Amy studied singing in Perugia.

1979

Returning to California in 1979, he was hired as a visiting writer at the University of California at Irvine.

1980

Mark F. Jarman (born in Mount Sterling, Kentucky) is an American poet and critic often identified with the New Narrative branch of the New Formalism; he was co-editor with Robert McDowell of The Reaper throughout the 1980s.

Centennial Professor of English, Emeritus, at Vanderbilt University, he is the author of eleven books of poetry, three books of essays, and a book of essays co-authored with Robert McDowell.

He co-edited the anthology Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism with David Mason.

Jarman's awards for poetry include a Joseph Henry Jackson Award, three grants from the NEA, and a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.

Mark and Amy's oldest daughter was born in Mission Viejo in 1980.

That same year, Jarman took a position teaching creative writing at Murray State University in Kentucky.

Two years later the couple's second daughter was born in Murray.

1983

In 1983, he left Murray State to teach at Vanderbilt University, where he has been since.

1986

Amy joined the voice faculty at the Blair School of Music in 1986.

1991

His book The Black Riviera won the 1991 Poets' Prize.

1997

Questions for Ecclesiastes was a finalist for the 1997 National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry and won the 1998 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets and The Nation magazine.

2007

Since 2007, Jarman has been Centennial Professor of English at Vanderbilt and was Director of Creative Writing until 2013.

2013

Bone Fires: New and Selected Poems won the 2013 Balcones Prize.

Mark Jarman was born while his father, Donald R. Jarman, was in seminary in Lexington, Kentucky.

2020

In August 2020, he retired from Vanderbilt University and is now Centennial Professor of English Emeritus.

Jarman's early poetry reflects the influence of living by the Pacific and the North Sea at important times in his life, along with growing up in a strongly religious family.

As he has matured, his poetry has remained invested in family experience, a sense of place, and the presence of God in everyday life.

Though he is associated with the New Formalism, his poetry has always ranged widely in form and style, from narrative to lyric, free to metrical verse, verse to prose poetry.