Ed Roberson

Ed Roberson (born c. 1948) is an American poet.

Life

Roberson was born and raised in Pittsburgh and graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 1970,^[1] and latter completed graduate work at Goddard College.^[2] He later served as a faculty member in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh^[1] and at Rutgers University until 2002.^[3] Since 2007, he a visiting writer and artist in Residence at the Northwestern University School of Professional Studies^[4] and has also taught at the University of Chicago and Columbia College.^[2]

His work appears in Callaloo^[5]^[6]

2008 Shelley Memorial Award
1998 National Poetry Series, for Atmosphere Conditions chosen by Nathaniel Mackey
Iowa Poetry Prize for Voices Cast Out to Talk Us In
LA Times Book Award
Stephen Henderson Critics Award for Achievement in Literature
Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award
Lenore Marshall Award finalist, Academy of American Poets’

"From: Picking Up the Tune, the Universe and Planets", Electronic Poetry Center
"VI. Cape Journal: At Sand Pile", Electronic Poetry Center
To See the Earth Before the End of the World. Wesleyan University Press. 2010. ISBN 978-0-8195-6950-9. ^[7]
City Eclogue. Atelos. 2006. ISBN 978-1-891190-23-0.
Atmosphere conditions. Sun & Moon Press. 2000. ISBN 978-1-55713-392-2.
Voices cast out to talk us in: poems. University of Iowa Press. 1995. ISBN 978-0-87745-510-3.
Etai-eken. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1975. ISBN 978-0-8229-5263-3.
When thy king is a boy: poems. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1970.

Lyn Hejinian, David Lehman, ed. (2004). "Ideas Gray Suits Bowler Hats Baal". The Best American Poetry 2004. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-5757-2.
Leonard Schwartz, Joseph Donahue, Edward Halsey Foster, ed. (1996). Primary trouble: an anthology of contemporary American poetry. Talisman House. ISBN 978-1-883689-29-2.

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