Ed Roberson

Ed Roberson
Born	1939
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Pittsburgh
Genre	poet
Notable awards	PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry

Ed Roberson (born 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. Since 2007, he has been a visiting writer and artist in Residence at the Northwestern University School of Professional Studies and has also taught at the University of Chicago and Columbia College. He is Artist-in-Residence at Northwestern University.

His work appears in Callaloo

Awards

• 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", Electronic Poetry Center
• "VI. Cape Journal: At Sand Pile", Electronic Poetry Center

External links

• "Ed Roberson", Poetry Lectures, Poetry Foundation