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Marvin Bell was born on 3 August, 1937 in United States, is an American poet and teacher (1937–2020). Discover Marvin Bell'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 83 years old?
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Marvin Hartley Bell (August 3, 1937 – December 14, 2020) was an American poet and teacher who was the first Poet Laureate of the state of Iowa.
Bell was raised in Center Moriches on Long Island.
Bell edited and published the literary magazine Statements from 1959 to 1964.
He served in the U.S. Army from 1964 to 1965 at the rank of First Lieutenant, and he was a licensed amateur radio operator.
He earned his bachelor's degree from Alfred University, his master's degree from the University of Chicago, and a MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.
He edited poetry for the reborn North American Review from 1964 to 1969 and The Iowa Review from 1969 to 1971.
He designed, and for five years led, a summer program for selected teachers from the urban public school program.
He also edited the New Poets/Short Books series published by the literary publisher Lost Horse Press for five years.
He lived in Port Townsend, Washington and Iowa City, Iowa.
Bell's first nationally distributed book, A Probable Volume of Dreams, was awarded the Lamont Poetry Prize of the Academy of American Poets in 1969.
Other honors for his work include Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) fellowships, and Fulbright appointments to Yugoslavia and Australia.
He was the author of more than 20 books of poetry, including The Book of the Dead Man (Copper Canyon Press, 1994), Ardor: The Book of the Dead Man, Vol. 2 (Copper Canyon Press, 1997), Nightworks: Poems 1962–2000 (Copper Canyon Press, 2000), Mars Being Red (Copper Canyon Press, 2007), and Vertigo: The Living Dead Man Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2011).
In 2000 Bell was appointed the first Poet Laureate for the state of Iowa.
Bell taught for forty years at the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, retiring as the Flannery O'Connor Professor of Letters.
Bell held numerous visiting lectureships at universities, including Goddard College, Oregon State University, the University of Hawaii, Wichita State University, Portland State University, and the University of Washington.
He served on the faculty of the Master of Fine Arts in Writing program at Pacific University in Oregon.
Bell's former students include Marilyn Chin, Rita Dove, Norman Dubie, James Galvin, Albert Goldbarth, Jorie Graham, Joy Harjo, Juan Felipe Herrera, Denis Johnson, Larry Levis, Jordan Smith (poet), David St. John, Michael Simms and James Tate.
Bell wrote poems protesting the War on Terror in Afghanistan and Iraq Wars and gave readings for Poets Against the War.
He died on December 14, 2020.
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