Marvin Bell

Marvin Bell taught forty years for the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and served two terms as Iowa’s first poet laureate. His nineteenth book, Mars Being Red, appeared in 2007. His twentieth, a collaboration of seven poets from five countries, appeared in 2009. He lives in Iowa City, and Port Townsend, Washington, and teaches for the brief-residency MFA program at Pacific University in Oregon. He is the creator of a form known as the “Dead Man poem.”

Articles

• The Book of the Dead Man (Fungi)

  A poem by Marvin Bell

• The Book of the Dead Man (Mount Rushmore)

  Poetry by Marvin Bell