Education: A.B., Harvard University; M.A., Ph.D., Washington University

• Poetry writing
• Modern and contemporary poetry
• Prosody (metrics)
• Music and poetry
• Computer arts

Professor Hartman studies and practices poetry, jazz, and computer programming, and all three find their way into the classroom. Hartman teaches classes in the writing of poetry, modern poetry, contemporary poetry, science fiction, and poetry and music. His computer program, "English Metrics," a poetry scansion tutorial, is used in introductory level English courses.

Hartman is turning the writing of poetry into a multimedia experience. He has created a series of computer programs that contribute to the writing and inspiration of poetry. One, called Prose, is a language generation program that creates random, syntactically correct English sentences. Hartman also uses computers to preserve poetry. He is co-founder with Wendy Battin of the Contemporary American Poetry Archive (CAPA), where out-of-print volumes of poetry are preserved on-line and can be accessed free of charge by anyone with internet access.

In 2000 he completed a CD of songs and instrumental music, and he is at work on a second CD of poems with musical accompaniment.

Hartman has published numerous volumes of poetry, including The Long View (1999) and Glass Enclosure (1995) from Wesleyan University Press. His most recent collection, Island, was published by Ahsahta Press in 2004. His first prose book, Free Verse: An Essay on Prosody (Princeton University Press, 1980) was reprinted by Northwestern University Press in 1996.

He has also published books on his other passions, music and computers, including Virtual Muse: Experiments in Computer Poetry (1996), Jazz Text: Voice and Improvisation in Poetry, Jazz, and Song (1991), and English Metrics: Hypertext Tutorial and Reference (1992). Hartman has also recently begun writing poetry in modern Greek.

His poems have been published in dozens of magazines, including The New Yorker, Poetry, Carolina Quarterly, Poetry Northwest, Poetry Now, Antioch Review, Ploughshares, Yale Review, and TriQuarterly.

Hartman has a personal home page on the World Wide Web, where samples of his poetry can be accessed. This is the URL: http://www.conncoll.edu/academics/departments/english/cohar/

CAPA's home on the World Wide Web can be accessed at this URL: http://capa.conncoll.edu/

Visit the English department site.