Marshall Schact

Marshall Walter Schacht (September 23, 1905 – November 21, 1956) was an American poet. He was born in Brookline, Massachusetts.

His work appeared in Poetry Magazine, the New Yorker.

He corresponded with George Davis Snell, a collge classmate, and Robert Francis.

He lived in New York City.

• Golden Rose Award
• 1949 Twayne first book contest

• Edward M. Cifelli (1998). John Ciardi. University of Arkansas Press. ISBN 978-1-55728-539-3. 

• Fingerboard: poems. New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc. 1949. 

Anthology

• Oscar Williams, ed. (1946). A Little Treasury of Modern Poetry. New York: Scribner's. ISBN 0-684-41489-9. 
• New Poets. Prairie City, Iowa: The Press of James A. Decker. 1941. 
• Macha Louis Rosenthal, ed. (1967). The new poets: American and British poetry since World War II. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-500741-7. 

Criticism

• "Robert P. Tristram: A review of Maine Ballads". Poetry. LIII (II): 92–96. November 1938.