Professor of English
Poet in Residence
Co-Director of Creative Writing
Charles Hartman, who has been publishing poetry for over three decades,
teaches the poetry-writing courses in the English Department's program in
creative writing:
- English
240: Reading and Writing Poems — usually offered in both
Spring and Fall semesters
- English
340: Writing Poetry: Workshop — usually offered once each
year
He directs Honors theses in the Concentration in Creative Writing in Poetry.
He also regularly teaches courses on contemporary poetry, including
English
306b: Recent American Poets. Sometimes he teaches
courses in other fields such as English
213a: Music
and Poetry, and
English
213b: Bob
Dylan.
Photo by Janet Hayes, 2008
And What Else?
Charles Hartman plays jazz guitar, and has done critical writing on the
relations between poetry and jazz and other musical forms, as well
as on the prosody of free and metrical verse, on connections between
poetry and computing, and on the work of a variety of modern and contemporary
poets. With Wendy Battin he co-directs the Contemporary
American Poetry Archive, a website
at Connecticut College that houses out-of-print poetry books.
See links on this page to detailed listings of publications, as well as
samples of work in poetry, in music, and in programming for language study.
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