Martin Jack Rosenblum was born August 19, 1946 in Appleton, Wisconsin. He married
Maureen (Rice) Rosenblum in 1970 and they have two daughters. Rosenblum received his
Bachelor of Science (with distinction) degree in English from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison in 1969, his Master of Arts degree in English from the University
of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1971, and his doctorate in English from the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1980. His dissertation is entitled Carl Rakosi's Americana Poems: Objectivist Word Machines from an American
Assembly Line.
Rosenblum has worked for University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for over thirty years, in
both teaching and administrative capacities. As of 2012, he is a senior lecturer of
music, literature, and history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Peck
School of the Arts.
Rosenblum is also a historian for the Les Paul's House of Sound exhibit at Discovery
World in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and historian emeritus for the Harley-Davidson
Corporation. He was featured in Peter Jennings' ABC series The Century in 1999, where he discussed the history of rock and
roll.
Rosenblum is best known for his work as a poet and recording artist, although he is
also a music and literary critic as well as an editor. Rosenblum has published over
twenty books of poetry and recorded over a dozen albums, of both original
compositions and spoken word. He has performed with his band in a British
Broadcasting Company television program, as well as for many international
television stations. He is a Gibson Guitars Montana endorsee and a Rounder Records
recording artist.
Rosenblum has received many awards, including two Wisconsin Area Music Industry
awards for Alternative Artist and Rock Journalist, two Knapp Fellowships in Modern
Poetry Research, and the Shepherd Express Reader's Choice for Best Poet of the Year.
He also received an honorable mention from the Academy of American Poets in 1971 for
his poem The Logs.
