Ed Roberson (born December 26, 1939) is an American poet.

Life

Roberson was born and raised in Pittsburgh and graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 1970, and later completed graduate work at Goddard College. He then served as a faculty member in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh and at Rutgers University until 2002. He married Rhonda Wiles in May 1973 who graduated from Rutgers University Douglas College and Hofstra Law School in New York. They had a daughter in 1976.

Since 2007, he has been a visiting writer and artist in Residence at the Northwestern University. and has also taught at the University of Chicago and Columbia College.

His work appears in the literary magazine Callaloo. Roberson has written eleven books of poetry.

Awards

• 2020 Jackson Poetry Prize from Poets & Writers

• 2017 Academy of American Poets Fellowship

• 2016 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry

• 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’

Works

Poetry

• "From: Picking Up the Tune, the Universe and Planets",

• "VI. Cape Journal: At Sand Pile",

Anthologies

References

External links

• "Ed Roberson",

• Ed Roberson: Poems and Profile at Poets.org