Martin J. Farawell

Martin Farawell (he/him/his) directs the Dodge Poetry Program, which includes: the biennial Dodge Poetry Festival, the largest poetry event in North America; Dodge Poets in the Schools, which sends poets into New Jersey high schools and offers poetry discussion groups to New Jersey teachers; and the Dodge Poetry Archive, currently being developed to make audio and video recordings from past Dodge Festivals available online.

Martin’s work at Dodge calls upon his decade of teaching experience and two decades of curating poetry reading series and working in the theater. He is a graduate of New York University’s graduate program in creative writing and the author of Odd Boy, which was a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize.

His plays have been produced in theaters from New York to South Africa and Los Angeles.
Martin spends a good part of his morning commute reciting poems to himself, which, in this age of hands-free cell phones, no longer gets as many strange looks as it once did.