Martha Silano

Martha SilanoBellevue College English instructor Martha Silano has a poem in the March 2015 issue of Poetry. ​Founded in Chicago by Harriet Monroe in 1912, Poetry is the oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world, publishing the first important poems of T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, H.D., William Carlos Williams, Carl Sandburg, and other now-classic authors. In succeeding decades it has presented—often for the first time—works by virtually every major contemporary poet. On average, the magazine receives over 90,000 submissions per year, from around the world. Silano is the author of four full-length collections of poetry, including The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception, winner of the 2010 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize and Reckless Lovely (Saturnalia Books 2014).

She also co-edited, with Kelli Russell Agodon, a poetry-writing textbook titled The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice. Silano began teaching at Bellevue College in 2005. She also edits Crab Creek Review​, a Seattle-based literary magazine with a national reputation.

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