Finishing Line Press is proud to announce the publication of Mark DeCarteret’s latest collection of poetry, Flap. Tom Lux insists that the poems in DeCarteret’s fifth collection “are laced with humor, irony, a splendid ear, a big wild heart.”
Born in Lowell Massachusetts in 1960, Mark graduated from the University of New Hampshire with an M.A. in English-Writing in 1993, the recipient of the Thomas Williams Memorial Poetry Prize. Since then his poetry has appeared in 300 literary reviews including Agenda (England), AGNI, Ars-Interpres (Sweden), Boston Review, Chicago Review, Conduit, Cream City Review, Gargoyle, Hotel Amerika, Killing the Buddha, New Orleans Review, Phoebe, Poetry East, Quick Fiction, Salamander, Salt Hill, Sonora Review, and Third Coast, as well as such anthologies as American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon Press), Places of Passage: Contemporary Catholic Poetry (Story Line Press), and Thus Spake the Corpse: An Exquisite Corpse Reader 1988-1998 (Black Sparrow Press). His other books are Over Easy (Minotaur Press); Review: A Book of Poems (Kettle of Fish Press); The Great Apology (Oyster River Press--for which he also co-edited Under the Legislature of Stars: 62 New Hampshire Poets); and (If This Is the) New World (March Street Press).
He served as Portsmouth, New Hampshire’s seventh Poet Laureate from 2009-2011.
