Charles O. Hartman is the author of eight poetry collections, most recently Downfall of the Straight Line (Arrowsmith Press, 2024). Previous collections include New & Selected Poems (Ahsahta, 2008), Island (Ahsahta, 2004), The Long View (Wesleyan, 1999), Glass Enclosure (Wesleyan, 1995), True North (Copper Beech, 1990), and The Pigfoot Rebellion (Godine, 1982). In 1995 he also published Sentences (Sun & Moon), a book-length poem created in collaboration with Hugh Kenner.
His critical works include Free Verse: An Essay on Prosody (Princeton, 1980), Jazz Text: Voice and Improvisation in Poetry, Jazz, and Song (Wesleyan, 1991), Virtual Muse: Experiments in Computer Poetry (Wesleyan, 1996), and Verse: An Introduction to Prosody (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015). In 2020 he co-edited a volume on poet Wendy Battin for the Unsung Masters Series.
Born in Iowa and raised across several states, Hartman studied at Harvard and Washington University in St. Louis. He served as Poet in Residence and Lucy Marsh Haskell ’19 Professor of English at Connecticut College for over three decades.
Bio information and photo sourced from Charles O. Hartman website.