Cohen, Marty 1947-
COHEN, Marty 1947-
PERSONAL: Born September 25, 1947, in Kansas City, MO; son of Philip (a wholesaler) and Eunice (a homemaker; maiden name, Goldberg) Cohen; married Mindy Aloff, June 16, 1968 (divorced); children: Ariel Nikiya. Education: Yale University, B.A. (English), 1969; State University of New York—Buffalo, M.A., 1972, Ph.D. (English), 1975; Yale School of Management, M.B.A., 1983. Religion: Jewish.
ADDRESSES: Home—600 West 246th St., Apt. 810, Riverdale, NY 10471. Office—Work-in-America Institute, 700 White Plains Rd., Scarsdale, NY 10583. E-mail—martycohen36@hotmail.com.
CAREER: Portland Poetry Festival, Inc., Portland, OR, coordinator, 1974-80; City of New York Human Resources Administration, New York, NY, director, office of management, FAS, 1983-87; Metropolitan Transportation Authority, New York, NY, senior analyst, 1987-91; Work-in-America Institute, Scarsdale, NY, senior vice president of client services, 1991—.
WRITINGS:
A Traveller's Alphabet (poetry), drawings by Henk Panner, Prescott Street Press (Portland, OR), 1979.
Fifty Days (poetry), One Wing, 1983.
Contributor of poems to periodicals, including Journal of Modern Literature, Encore, Parnassus, Threepenny Review, Calamus, Oasis, Buffalo Vortex, and Intrepid.
WORK IN PROGRESS: "Total Eclipse on a Rainy Day" (poetry); "What the Dog Wants" (poetry); "The Omer Poems" (poetry). Research on art in landscape.