Russell Atkins

Poet

Cleveland, OH

Ohio US

Author's Bio

Poet, composer, and editor Russell Atkins was born in Cleveland, Ohio. Russell Atkins’s collections of poetry include the chapbooks and small-press books A Podium Presentation (1960), Phenomena (1961), Objects (1963), Objects 2 (1964), Heretofore (1968), The Nail, to Be Set to Music (1970), Maleficium (1971), and Whichever (1978). He also wrote two verse-plays or “poems in play forms”: The Abortionist and The Corpse, both published in Free Lance. His only full-length collection, Here in The (1976), was published by the Cleveland State Poetry Center. A collection of his papers is held at the Atlanta University Center’s Robert W. Woodruff Library. Atkins died at the age of ninety-eight on August 15, 2024.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:

The Kenning Anthology of Poets Theater (Kenning Editions, 2010)

The Garden Thieves (Harper Collins, 1996)

The Garden Thrives (Harper Collins, 1996)

Voices of Cleveland (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1996)

Letters to America (Wayne State University Press, 1995)

Scarecrow Poetry (Ashland Poetry Press, 1994)

Western Reserve Literature (Kent State University Press, 1992)

Beyond the Reef (Houghton Mifflin, 1991)

An Ear to the Ground (University of Georgia Press, 1989)

Journals:

House Organ

SplitCity

More Information

Born in:

Cleveland, OH

Ohio

Raised in:

Cleveland, OH

Ohio

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Last update: Oct 10, 2024