JoeMartin’s Profile
- Age: 71
- Location: Washington, DC
- Gender: Male
- Country: US
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Biography
Author and theatre director. Books include: Parabola--Shorter Fictions; Foreigners (A Novel); Keeper of the Protocols--The Works of Jens Bjorneboe; Strindberg--Other Sides; Conspiracies -- Six Plays by Joe Martin; Rumi's MATHNAVI (A Theatre Adapatation); The Insomnia Suite (Poems), and contributions to anthologies such as Heiner Muller in America; Stress City (New short fiction); Tramoya (Rutgers and University of Vera Cruz in Spanish) and many literary journals. A writer of poetic drama recipient of two Rockefeller Grants and Fulbright Senior Scholar Appointment to Eastern Europe -- Martin is currently in on the roster of Fulbright Senior Specialists, and is a senior lecturer in the Theatre Arts and Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University. Dozens of original plays and theatre productions can be seen at the following website: www.joemartin.us
Recent Poems
- A STATEMENT
- Tags: Political
- A couple kids on the Metro are playing with a pistol with a little red light on it that flashes when the trigger’s cocked There’s a little flames that ...
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- CLASSIFIED
- Tags: Political
- The lanky black lady bent sideways plastic bag full of newspaper clippings and a fortune of coupons In her hands a smudged piece of news about ...
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- SLUT ROOSTER
- Tags: Philosophy
- The Slut Rooster staggers through the straw swaggers down a path of broken eggs The Slut Rooster has a squinty eye and the soul of a dog He hits on every ...
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- ROSE LIGHT
- Tags: Religion
- On the Urs of Rumi
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e candle cast light on the rose and the red of the rose ate the light and turned into a lamp Don’t turn ... - Read Complete Poem