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Martin Walls (born Brighton, England) is a British-American poet and the first British-born winner of the US Library of Congress Witter Bynner Fellowship.

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Martin Walls was born in Brighton, England in 1970 and now lives in Baldwinsville, New York with his wife, Christine, and their child Alex. A US Library of Congress Witter Bynner Fellow, he is the author of three books of poems: Small Human Detail in Care of National Trust (2000), Commonwealth (2005), and The Solvay Process (2009).

In addition, Walls edits the "online anthology" The Book of Snails, a collection of poetry and science writing.

Walls's collaboration with photographer Philip MacCabe and graphic designer Shadric Toop can be found at smallhumandetail.com. His blog on sustainability and going green can be read at amosoneplanet.blogspot.com.

Walls's poetry has been published in The Nation, The Ohio Review, Salt Hill, Epoch, The Gettysburg Review, Boulevard, Five Points, Kestrel, Blackbird, Commonweal, Beloit Poetry Journal, and elsewhere.

He holds a BA (Hons) from the University of East Anglia, England. He also attended Purdue University, from which he holds an M.F.A. [1] [2] degree.

He has taught poetry writing at Ball State University and the Downtown Writers Center, part of the Syracuse YMCA Y Arts curriculum. [3] He has also taught at Syracuse University, Onondaga Community College, Cazenovia College, and SUNY Cortland.

In Syracuse he was a journalist and editor at Eagle Newspapers, where he founded the Solvay-Geddes Express newspaper. As a senior editor at Bentley-Hall, Inc., [4] he helped found Making Music, a magazine for amateur musicians. Walls also edited International Musician for the American Federation of Musicians. Walls plays drums, percussion, and resonator guitar.

Walls is communications manager for the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism at Syracuse University. He has been communications manager at the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems and the Syracuse University Office of Community Engagement and Economic Development. He has also performed communications work for Syracuse University Project Advance, AMP Urology, CNY Jazz Central, and the Bluebell Railway.

The Solvay Process
AuthorMartin Walls
Cover artistPhilip Memmer (designer)
CountryUSA
LanguageEnglish
SeriesTiger Bark Poets
GenrePoetry
PublisherTiger Bark Press
Publication date
2009
Media typeTrade Paperback
ISBN 0981675212
Followed byKaren Swenson, Pilgrim Into Silence 

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