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Mark McMorris |
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Mark McMorris was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and attended the Excelsior School. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Columbia College, Columbia University, and lived and worked in Manhattan before moving to Providence, RI, for graduate study. He has a master’s degree in Creating Writing (Poetry) and a doctorate in Comparative Literature from Brown University. He is currently an associate professor of English at Georgetown University, and is the former director of the Georgetown Poetry & Seminar Series and the university’s Lannan Fellows Program. A two-time winner of the Contemporary Poetry Series award from the University of Georgia Press, Mr. McMorris is the author of four books of poetry: The Café at Light (Roof Books, 2004), The Blaze of the Poui (University of Georgia Press, 2003), The Black Reeds (University of Georgia Press, 1997), and Moth-Wings (Burning Deck, 1996).
Program: Back A Yard
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