Len Roberts

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Len Roberts
Born	(1947-03-13)March 13, 1947 Cohoes, New York, United States
Died	May 25, 2007(2007-05-25) (aged 60) Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States
Occupations	Poet and professor

Len Roberts (March 13, 1947 – May 25, 2007) was an American poet.

Life

He graduated from Siena College, the University of Dayton with a master's degree, and from Lehigh University with a Ph.D.

He presented some of his work at Lafayette College. Allen Ginsberg sent his manuscript to a publisher which was Cohoes Theater.

He translated three books of Hungarian poet Sándor Csoóri, whose writing helped to inspire the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.

He taught at the University of Pittsburgh, Muhlenberg College, Lafayette College, and Northampton Community College (for 33 years).

Awards

• 1988, National Poetry Series Award, for Black Wings
• 1991 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Award for poetry
• two awards from the National Endowment for the Arts
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
• two Fulbright Scholar awards

Works

Poetry

• "Doing the Laundry"; "All day cutting wood, thinking"; "Contemplating Again the Jade Chrysanthemum, or Why the Ancient Chinese Poets Remained Unmarried"; "Acupuncture and Cleansing at Forty-Eight"; "Learning on Olmstead Street"; "More Walnuts, Late October", Poetry Magazine, April 2000
• Cohoes Theater. Santa Monica: Momentum Press, 1980.
• The Million Branches: Selected Poems and Interview. Mount Nebo: Yarrow Press, 1993.

External links

• Len Roberts Collection at The National Poetry Series