Seacoast poet Mark Decarteret is a new resident of Rye, but no newcomer to the regional poetry scene.

Mark was born in Lowell Massachusetts in 1960 and he has lived within an hour or two drive ever since.  In 1993 Mark graduated from the University of New Hampshire with an M.A. in English-Writing He is the recipient of the Thomas Williams Memorial Poetry Prize, and was Portsmouth’s seventh poet laureate.  Decarteret’s poetry has appeared in over two hundred different reviews such as AGNI, Boston Review, Chicago Review, Conduit, Cream City Review, Failbetter, Hotel Amerika, Phoebe, Poetry East, Salamander, Sonora Review, and Third Coast, as well as the anthologies American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon Press), Places of Passage: Contemporary Catholic Poetry (Story Line Press), Thus Spake the Corpse: An Exquisite Corpse Reader 1988-1998 (Black Sparrow Press) and Under the Legislature of Stars: 62 New Hampshire Poets  (Oyster River Press) which he also co-edited. His chapbook “Flap” was published by Finishing Line Press in spring 2011.

Please contact Library Director Andy Richmond at (603)964-8401 or arichmond@ryepubliclibrary.org for more information.

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