Martin Arnold

Martin Arnold is a Visiting Instructor who teaches composition and adult transitions courses. He has an M.A. from New Mexico State University and an M.F.A from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the Associate Poetry Editor of storySouth: a journal of literature from the New South. His poetry has been published in Denver Quarterly, Crazyhorse, Poetry East, Greensboro Review, and elsewhere. Recent publications include Cimarron Review, Blue Mesa Review, and Lake Effect: A Journal of the Literary Arts. His manuscript, A Million Distant Glittering Catastrophes, was a finalist for the 2009 New Issues Poetry Prize.

Poems recently published [or forthcoming]: 

  • "Rush" in Cimarron Review [forthcoming summer 2009]
  • "We're All Searching for Something," "Circles Inside Other Circles," "People of the Library," and "Lying in a Hammock, First Day of Spring, Appreciating Issa" in Blue Mesa Review issue no. 22, summer 2009
  • "Sweet 16" in Lake Effect: A Journal of the Literary Arts vol. 13, March 2009

Awards:

  • A Million Distant Glittering Catastrophes, a finalist for the 2009 New Issues Poetry Prize