Martin Galvin

• Name — Martin Galvin • Birth Name — Martin George Galvin • Born — February 21, 1937 • Birthplace — Mount Airy, Philadelphia, U.S. • Occupation — Poet teacher • Education — Villanova University University of Maryland, College Park • Awards — Columbia Prize for poetry Poet Lore • Website — http: www.martingalvin.com • Died — 6 August 2018 • Place of death — Chevy Chase, Maryland, U.S.

Galvin grew up in Mount Airy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended Catholic schools including St. John's High School, Manayunk, Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in a class of 15. After graduating from Villanova University with a BA degree in Liberal Arts, he continued his education and received his Masters and his Ph.D. degrees in American Literature from the University of Maryland, College Park while teaching literature at St. Joseph's College, Emmitsburg, Maryland. After moving to the Washington, D.C. area in the early 1970s, he taught creative writing and poetry at Walt Whitman High School, Bethesda, Maryland. Before his death, he had most recently taught at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, Maryland.

He and his wife, Theresa, have two daughters, Brenna and Tara. They divided their time between Chevy Chase, Maryland and Ocean View, Delaware.

His poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Best American Poetry 1997, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Delaware Poetry Review, Four Quarters, Midwest Quarterly, Orion, Poet Lore, Poetry, and Texas Review.

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* * • "The Poet Upstairs", Washington Writers Publishing House, 1997; • "70 on the 70's", Ashland College, 1981; • "Anthology of Magazine Verse", Los Angeles, 1981, 1983, 1985; • "Songs from Unsung Worlds", Boston, 1985;