Charles Fort’s books include: We Did Not
Fear The Father: New and Selected Poems
by Red Hen Press (2010) and Mrs.
Belladonna’s Supper Club Waltz, New
and Selected Prose Poems, Volumes 1 and 2,
by Backwaters Press (2010), with elements
of poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and
memoir. Fort’s poems have appeared in
The Best American Poetry 2003 and The
Best American Poetry 2000. Carnegie
Mellon University Press reprinted his first
book, The Town Clock Burning, under its
Classic Contemporary Series. A MacDowell
Fellow, Fort attended the Breadloaf Writers’
Conference in 1972 and 1974, and the
Cranbrook Writers’ Conference in 1971,
1972, and 1973. Fort has started writing
his first novel: The Last Black Hippie
From Connecticut.