{"id":66,"count":4,"description":"<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/buffoons\/author1.jpg\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/anotherchicagomagazine.net\/2025\/02\/13\/some-days-im-startled-by-the-beauty-of-it-all-an-interview-with-richard-martin\/\">Read the Feb. 13, 2025 interview with Richard Martin in <em>Another Chicago Magazine<\/em>.<\/a><\/h3>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Richard Martin lives in Boston and works from a self-imposed turret in his home. He has a lovely wife, three children, two cats and a dog. Many years ago, before online applications, he received a NEA Fellowship for Poetry. He supports an extravagant lifestyle thanks to royalties from his poetry books and his first bestselling collection of short fiction, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/shop\/altercations-in-the-quiet-car\/\"><em>Altercations in the Quiet Car<\/em>\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>(Lavender Ink\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/books\/fell-swoop\">Fell Swoop<\/a>, 2010).<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He is the author of five previous books of poems,\u00a0<strong><em>Dream of Long Headdresses: Poems from a Thousand Hospitals, White Man Appears on Southern California Beach, Modulations, Marks<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/shop\/under-the-sky-of-no-complaint\/\"><em>Under the Sky of No Complaint<\/em>.<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0He is also the author of the classic anti-memoir,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/shop\/boink\/\"><em>boink!<\/em>\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>(Lavender Ink, 2005), and, most recently,\u00a0<strong><em>Techniques in the Neighborhood of Sleep\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>(Spuyten Duyvil, 2016). His work has appeared in a variety of literary magazines, including\u00a0<strong><em>Fell Swoop: The All Bohemian Revue, Exquisite Corpse, unarmed, House Organ, Big Bridge, The American Drivel Review, BURP, Gargoyle<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong><em>ACM<\/em><\/strong>. In 1983, he founded The Big Horror Poetry Series (1983-1996) in Binghamton, NY, coordinating it for 13 years with the Binghamton Community Poets.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He writes:<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I\u2019ve always been a fan of Spicer\u2019s understanding that poems arrive via an open window, through radio transmissions, and\/or delivered to consciousness by Martians. For as long as I can remember, wind, tunes, and little green men have rattled my mind with a phrase or image, and I have used pen or pencil to hitch a ride on each transmission from those sources. This predilection of recording poetic transmissions \u2013 being a dutiful secretary \u2013 has been and continues to be fun and enlightening and has kept me on the street of American poetry. Transmissions are wayward and free and a bit phobic of workshops and programs.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In more practical terms, I started out writing about washing bedpans and various medical utensils in hospitals in the late sixties and moved on from there. In 1982, I won the NEA lottery for poetry for 12 hospital poems and used the money to fund a wild ride down the California coastline with friends and strangers. Thanks to being radiated by the CA sun, I wrote my second book of poems,\u00a0<strong><em>White Man Appears on Southern California Beach<\/em><\/strong>, in a state of delirium. Back east, I became a single father with two children and founded The Big Horror Poetry Series in Binghamton, New York. Thanks to the Binghamton Community Poets, the series ran for sixteen years and video tapes of the series are housed at the Binghamton University Library. The series was inclusive \u2013 a place where poets and writers from the community, from various schools of poetry, and universities enjoyed each other\u2019s company \u2013 sort of.\u00a0 Jerome Rothenberg said our home at Swat Sullivan\u2019s (thanks, Tommy C, Bern, Tommy H., Phil, Tommy the K; John, Michael, and Alexis) reminded him of Hugo Ball\u2019s Cabaret Voltaire. The series also sparked my connection with Peter Kidd, publisher of Igneus Press, and the poets Walter Butts, William Kemmett, and James deCrescentis after I had moved to Boston.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since then, I have written three more books of poetry, an anti-memoir, and a collection of short stories. My latest is\u00a0<strong><em>Under the Sky of No Complaint<\/em><\/strong>, a collaborative effort from Lavender Ink and Fell Swoop.\u00a0<strong><em>Fell Swoop<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>is my home literary magazine. Thanks to XJ (Joel) Dailey, poems and stories of mine have appeared in many issues since its inception. In addition,\u00a0<strong><em>Fell Swoop<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0has published single issues of my work under the pseudonyms Duck Martian, Ant McGoogle, and Diktater. I\u2019ve also remarried, became a father again at 50, and no longer know how old I am.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong>BOOKS \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.igneuspress.com\/product\/sighting-icarus-poems-by-richard-martin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.igneuspress.com\/product\/sighting-icarus-poems-by-richard-martin\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1619222660224000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEknH8hI0_Qs6dunsAIyHzSRwY2SQ\">Sighting Icarus: Poems by Richard Martin<\/a><\/em> (Igneus Press, 2020)<\/p>\r\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.igneuspress.com\/product\/hard-labor-poems-by-richard-martin-jan-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.igneuspress.com\/product\/hard-labor-poems-by-richard-martin-jan-2019\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1619222660224000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGWhUpgGuR_h56ueQJ4sZz2N4CcXA\">Hard Labor<\/a> <\/em>(Igneus Press, 2019)<\/p>\r\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.igneuspress.com\/product\/cosmic-sandbox-poems-by-richard-martin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.igneuspress.com\/product\/cosmic-sandbox-poems-by-richard-martin\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1619222660224000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGCJLccLhYpOpONUXHlSKy2NrNM4A\">Cosmic Sandbox<\/a> <\/em>(Igneus Press, 2019)<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spuytenduyvil.net\/techniques-in-the-neighborhood-of-sleep.html\"><em>Techniques in the Neighborhood of Sleep<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>(Spuyten Duyvil, 2016)<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/shop\/buffoons-in-the-gene-pool\/\"><em>Buffoons in the Gene Pool<strong>,<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0Lavender Ink\/Fell Swoop, 2016<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/shop\/under-the-sky-of-no-complaint\/\"><em>Under the Sky of No Complaint<\/em><\/a>, Lavender Ink\/Fell Swoop, 2013<br \/>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/martin\/skyreview.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the review by Jefferson Hansen from\u00a0<strong><em>THE ALTEREDSCALE REVIEW<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/shop\/altercations-in-the-quiet-car\/\"><em>Altercations in the Quiet Car,<\/em><\/a>\u00a0Lavender Ink\/Fell Swoop, 2011<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Strip Meditation<\/em>, Igneus Press, 2009<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/shop\/boink\/\"><em>boink!,<\/em><\/a>\u00a0Lavender Ink, 2005<br \/>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/martin\/boinkreview.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the Richard Blevins review of\u00a0<em>boink!<\/em>\u00a0from\u00a0<em>House Organ<\/em>\u00a0Number 90 Spring 2015<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Marks-Poems-Richard-Martin\/dp\/1878580566\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Marks<\/em><\/a>, Asylum Arts, October 2002<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Modulations-Richard-Martin\/dp\/1878580671\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Modulations<\/em><\/a>, Asylum Arts, December 1998<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Negation of Beautiful Words<\/em>, Igneus Press, 1996<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/White-Appears-Southern-California-Beach\/dp\/B003MOKRGI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>White Man Appears on Southern California Beach<\/em>,<\/a>\u00a0Bottom Fish Press, March 1991.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dream-Long-Headdresses-Thousand-Hospitals\/dp\/0936563125\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Dream of Long Headdresses: Poems from a Thousand Hospitals<\/em>,<\/a>\u00a0Signpost Press, 1988.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong>ANTHOLOGIES<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Aloud-Voices-Nuyorican-Poets-Cafe\/dp\/0805032576\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Cafe\u00a0<\/em><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Poets-Goodbye-Twentieth-Century\/dp\/1568580681\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>American Poets Say Goodbye to the 20th Century<\/em><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong>AWARDS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">NEA Fellowship-Poetry (1982)\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong>FOUNDER<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Big Horror Poetry Series, Binghamton, New York, 1982-1996<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong>OCCUPATION<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Educator \u2013 Principal\/Boston Public Schools (retired)<\/p>","link":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/books\/richard-martin\/","name":"Richard Martin","slug":"richard-martin","taxonomy":"product_tag","meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Richard Martin Archives - Lavender Ink \/ Di\u00e1logos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" 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Richard Martin lives in Boston and works from a self-imposed turret in his home. He has a lovely wife, three children, two cats and a dog. Many years ago, before online applications, he received a NEA Fellowship for Poetry. He supports an extravagant lifestyle thanks to royalties from his poetry books and his first bestselling collection of short fiction, Altercations in the Quiet Car\u00a0(Lavender Ink\/Fell Swoop, 2010). He is the author of five previous books of poems,\u00a0Dream of Long Headdresses: Poems from a Thousand Hospitals, White Man Appears on Southern California Beach, Modulations, Marks\u00a0and\u00a0Under the Sky of No Complaint.\u00a0He is also the author of the classic anti-memoir,\u00a0boink!\u00a0(Lavender Ink, 2005), and, most recently,\u00a0Techniques in the Neighborhood of Sleep\u00a0(Spuyten Duyvil, 2016). His work has appeared in a variety of literary magazines, including\u00a0Fell Swoop: The All Bohemian Revue, Exquisite Corpse, unarmed, House Organ, Big Bridge, The American Drivel Review, BURP, Gargoyle\u00a0and\u00a0ACM. In 1983, he founded The Big Horror Poetry Series (1983-1996) in Binghamton, NY, coordinating it for 13 years with the Binghamton Community Poets. He writes: I\u2019ve always been a fan of Spicer\u2019s understanding that poems arrive via an open window, through radio transmissions, and\/or delivered to consciousness by Martians. For as long as I can remember, wind, tunes, and little green men have rattled my mind with a phrase or image, and I have used pen or pencil to hitch a ride on each transmission from those sources. This predilection of recording poetic transmissions \u2013 being a dutiful secretary \u2013 has been and continues to be fun and enlightening and has kept me on the street of American poetry. Transmissions are wayward and free and a bit phobic of workshops and programs. In more practical terms, I started out writing about washing bedpans and various medical utensils in hospitals in the late sixties and moved on from there. In 1982, I won the NEA lottery for poetry for 12 hospital poems and used the money to fund a wild ride down the California coastline with friends and strangers. Thanks to being radiated by the CA sun, I wrote my second book of poems,\u00a0White Man Appears on Southern California Beach, in a state of delirium. Back east, I became a single father with two children and founded The Big Horror Poetry Series in Binghamton, New York. Thanks to the Binghamton Community Poets, the series ran for sixteen years and video tapes of the series are housed at the Binghamton University Library. The series was inclusive \u2013 a place where poets and writers from the community, from various schools of poetry, and universities enjoyed each other\u2019s company \u2013 sort of.\u00a0 Jerome Rothenberg said our home at Swat Sullivan\u2019s (thanks, Tommy C, Bern, Tommy H., Phil, Tommy the K; John, Michael, and Alexis) reminded him of Hugo Ball\u2019s Cabaret Voltaire. The series also sparked my connection with Peter Kidd, publisher of Igneus Press, and the poets Walter Butts, William Kemmett, and James deCrescentis after I had moved to Boston. Since then, I have written three more books of poetry, an anti-memoir, and a collection of short stories. My latest is\u00a0Under the Sky of No Complaint, a collaborative effort from Lavender Ink and Fell Swoop.\u00a0Fell Swoop\u00a0is my home literary magazine. Thanks to XJ (Joel) Dailey, poems and stories of mine have appeared in many issues since its inception. In addition,\u00a0Fell Swoop\u00a0has published single issues of my work under the pseudonyms Duck Martian, Ant McGoogle, and Diktater. I\u2019ve also remarried, became a father again at 50, and no longer know how old I am. &nbsp; BOOKS \u00a0\u00a0 Sighting Icarus: Poems by Richard Martin (Igneus Press, 2020) Hard Labor (Igneus Press, 2019) Cosmic Sandbox (Igneus Press, 2019) Techniques in the Neighborhood of Sleep\u00a0(Spuyten Duyvil, 2016) Buffoons in the Gene Pool,\u00a0Lavender Ink\/Fell Swoop, 2016 Under the Sky of No Complaint, Lavender Ink\/Fell Swoop, 2013 Read the review by Jefferson Hansen from\u00a0THE ALTEREDSCALE REVIEW Altercations in the Quiet Car,\u00a0Lavender Ink\/Fell Swoop, 2011 Strip Meditation, Igneus Press, 2009 boink!,\u00a0Lavender Ink, 2005 Read the Richard Blevins review of\u00a0boink!\u00a0from\u00a0House Organ\u00a0Number 90 Spring 2015 Marks, Asylum Arts, October 2002 Modulations, Asylum Arts, December 1998 Negation of Beautiful Words, Igneus Press, 1996 White Man Appears on Southern California Beach,\u00a0Bottom Fish Press, March 1991. Dream of Long Headdresses: Poems from a Thousand Hospitals,\u00a0Signpost Press, 1988. &nbsp; ANTHOLOGIES Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Cafe\u00a0 American Poets Say Goodbye to the 20th Century &nbsp; AWARDS NEA Fellowship-Poetry (1982)\u00a0 &nbsp; FOUNDER Big Horror Poetry Series, Binghamton, New York, 1982-1996 &nbsp; OCCUPATION Educator \u2013 Principal\/Boston Public Schools (retired)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/books\/richard-martin\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Lavender Ink \/ Di\u00e1logos\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/buffoons\/author1.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@lavender_ink_pr\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"CollectionPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/books\/richard-martin\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/books\/richard-martin\/\",\"name\":\"Richard Martin Archives - Lavender Ink \/ Di\u00e1logos\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/#website\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/books\/richard-martin\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/books\/richard-martin\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Richard Martin\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/\",\"name\":\"Lavender Ink \/ Di\u00e1logos\",\"description\":\"Publisher of Contemporary Poetry and Literary Prose\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Lavender Ink \/ Di\u00e1logos\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/cityscape-800.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/cityscape-800.jpg\",\"width\":800,\"height\":183,\"caption\":\"Lavender Ink \/ Di\u00e1logos\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lavenderinkdialogos\/\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/lavender_ink_pr\"]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Richard Martin Archives - Lavender Ink \/ Di\u00e1logos","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/books\/richard-martin\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Richard Martin Archives - Lavender Ink \/ Di\u00e1logos","og_description":"Read the Feb. 13, 2025 interview with Richard Martin in Another Chicago Magazine. Richard Martin lives in Boston and works from a self-imposed turret in his home. He has a lovely wife, three children, two cats and a dog. Many years ago, before online applications, he received a NEA Fellowship for Poetry. He supports an extravagant lifestyle thanks to royalties from his poetry books and his first bestselling collection of short fiction, Altercations in the Quiet Car\u00a0(Lavender Ink\/Fell Swoop, 2010). He is the author of five previous books of poems,\u00a0Dream of Long Headdresses: Poems from a Thousand Hospitals, White Man Appears on Southern California Beach, Modulations, Marks\u00a0and\u00a0Under the Sky of No Complaint.\u00a0He is also the author of the classic anti-memoir,\u00a0boink!\u00a0(Lavender Ink, 2005), and, most recently,\u00a0Techniques in the Neighborhood of Sleep\u00a0(Spuyten Duyvil, 2016). His work has appeared in a variety of literary magazines, including\u00a0Fell Swoop: The All Bohemian Revue, Exquisite Corpse, unarmed, House Organ, Big Bridge, The American Drivel Review, BURP, Gargoyle\u00a0and\u00a0ACM. In 1983, he founded The Big Horror Poetry Series (1983-1996) in Binghamton, NY, coordinating it for 13 years with the Binghamton Community Poets. He writes: I\u2019ve always been a fan of Spicer\u2019s understanding that poems arrive via an open window, through radio transmissions, and\/or delivered to consciousness by Martians. For as long as I can remember, wind, tunes, and little green men have rattled my mind with a phrase or image, and I have used pen or pencil to hitch a ride on each transmission from those sources. This predilection of recording poetic transmissions \u2013 being a dutiful secretary \u2013 has been and continues to be fun and enlightening and has kept me on the street of American poetry. Transmissions are wayward and free and a bit phobic of workshops and programs. In more practical terms, I started out writing about washing bedpans and various medical utensils in hospitals in the late sixties and moved on from there. In 1982, I won the NEA lottery for poetry for 12 hospital poems and used the money to fund a wild ride down the California coastline with friends and strangers. Thanks to being radiated by the CA sun, I wrote my second book of poems,\u00a0White Man Appears on Southern California Beach, in a state of delirium. Back east, I became a single father with two children and founded The Big Horror Poetry Series in Binghamton, New York. Thanks to the Binghamton Community Poets, the series ran for sixteen years and video tapes of the series are housed at the Binghamton University Library. The series was inclusive \u2013 a place where poets and writers from the community, from various schools of poetry, and universities enjoyed each other\u2019s company \u2013 sort of.\u00a0 Jerome Rothenberg said our home at Swat Sullivan\u2019s (thanks, Tommy C, Bern, Tommy H., Phil, Tommy the K; John, Michael, and Alexis) reminded him of Hugo Ball\u2019s Cabaret Voltaire. The series also sparked my connection with Peter Kidd, publisher of Igneus Press, and the poets Walter Butts, William Kemmett, and James deCrescentis after I had moved to Boston. Since then, I have written three more books of poetry, an anti-memoir, and a collection of short stories. My latest is\u00a0Under the Sky of No Complaint, a collaborative effort from Lavender Ink and Fell Swoop.\u00a0Fell Swoop\u00a0is my home literary magazine. Thanks to XJ (Joel) Dailey, poems and stories of mine have appeared in many issues since its inception. In addition,\u00a0Fell Swoop\u00a0has published single issues of my work under the pseudonyms Duck Martian, Ant McGoogle, and Diktater. I\u2019ve also remarried, became a father again at 50, and no longer know how old I am. &nbsp; BOOKS \u00a0\u00a0 Sighting Icarus: Poems by Richard Martin (Igneus Press, 2020) Hard Labor (Igneus Press, 2019) Cosmic Sandbox (Igneus Press, 2019) Techniques in the Neighborhood of Sleep\u00a0(Spuyten Duyvil, 2016) Buffoons in the Gene Pool,\u00a0Lavender Ink\/Fell Swoop, 2016 Under the Sky of No Complaint, Lavender Ink\/Fell Swoop, 2013 Read the review by Jefferson Hansen from\u00a0THE ALTEREDSCALE REVIEW Altercations in the Quiet Car,\u00a0Lavender Ink\/Fell Swoop, 2011 Strip Meditation, Igneus Press, 2009 boink!,\u00a0Lavender Ink, 2005 Read the Richard Blevins review of\u00a0boink!\u00a0from\u00a0House Organ\u00a0Number 90 Spring 2015 Marks, Asylum Arts, October 2002 Modulations, Asylum Arts, December 1998 Negation of Beautiful Words, Igneus Press, 1996 White Man Appears on Southern California Beach,\u00a0Bottom Fish Press, March 1991. Dream of Long Headdresses: Poems from a Thousand Hospitals,\u00a0Signpost Press, 1988. &nbsp; ANTHOLOGIES Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Cafe\u00a0 American Poets Say Goodbye to the 20th Century &nbsp; AWARDS NEA Fellowship-Poetry (1982)\u00a0 &nbsp; FOUNDER Big Horror Poetry Series, Binghamton, New York, 1982-1996 &nbsp; OCCUPATION Educator \u2013 Principal\/Boston Public Schools (retired)","og_url":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/books\/richard-martin\/","og_site_name":"Lavender Ink \/ Di\u00e1logos","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/buffoons\/author1.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_site":"@lavender_ink_pr","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"CollectionPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/books\/richard-martin\/","url":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/books\/richard-martin\/","name":"Richard Martin Archives - Lavender Ink \/ Di\u00e1logos","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/#website"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/books\/richard-martin\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/books\/richard-martin\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Richard Martin"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/","name":"Lavender Ink \/ Di\u00e1logos","description":"Publisher of Contemporary Poetry and Literary Prose","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/#organization","name":"Lavender Ink \/ Di\u00e1logos","url":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/cityscape-800.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/cityscape-800.jpg","width":800,"height":183,"caption":"Lavender Ink \/ Di\u00e1logos"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lavenderinkdialogos\/","https:\/\/x.com\/lavender_ink_pr"]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/product_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?product_tag=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}