Colorado Poets Center
Robert King
Biography
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Born in Denver, Colorado, with Ft. Collins his hometown, Robert King attended Colorado State University (M. A. American Literature, 1961) and the University of Iowa (Ph. D. English/Creative Writing, 1965). He retired from the University of North Dakota as Professor Emeritus in 1995. After five years as Visiting Professor of English at the University of Nebraska/Lincoln, he came to Greeley where he lives and teaches part-time at the University of Northern Colorado. He has published five chapbooks—the most recent, What It Was
Like from Small Poetry Press in 2003—and his work has appeared
in anthologies as well as magazines including Ascent, Atlanta
Review, Blue Unicorn, Carolina Quarterly, Great
River Review, The Malahat Review, Massachusetts Review,
The Missouri Review, Nebraska Review, North Dakota
Quarterly, Northeast, Poetry, Rattle,
Red Rock Review, and South Dakota Review. |
Chapbooks
What It Was Like, Small Poetry Press, 2003
Naming Names, Palanquin Press, 2001
Learning American, Frank Cat Press, 1998
A Circle of Land, Dacotah Territory Press, 1990
Standing Around Outside, Bloodroot Press, 1979
Anthologies
1995-96 Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry,
Monitor Press, 1996
Prairie Volcano: An Anthology of North Dakota Writing, Dacotah Territory/St.
Ives Press, 1995
Beyond Borders, New Rivers/Turnstone Press, 1992
Getting the Knack: 20 Poetry Exercises, NCTE, 1992
As Far as I Can See, Windflower Press, 1989
On Naming Names (Palanquin Press Copyright © 2001)
“These poems burst their boundaries up and down and margin outwards towards the still untamed infinity of words, work their coordinates through restless references and indexes always towards a greater shifting irony that bends and warps like bodies in a fun house mirror. No discipline measured in either language or numbers escapes his testing, no starting point so commonplace its mystery and strangeness does not taunt him and tease us. What results is the naming of Naming Names, part Adam's assertion of the world, part necessary price of admission to the numinous carnival of plenitude which is our lives. Always somehow, through it all, Bob retains his fresh-faced enthusiasm and his wry good humor.” (Greg Kuzma)
“I love the freedoms Bob calls on in the longer poems, and the fact that he's taken the poems on, to spin their stories out as if they carried knots that tightened and then slipped free.” (Jay Meek)
“What a funny, intelligent poet King is! I admire his serious sense of play.” (Twyla Hansen)
Page last updated May 20, 2004
For page information,
contact Dr. Rita Jones (RitaJones@alum.albertson.edu)
or Dr. Robert King (rwendellking@yahoo.com)