Join us for “CELEBRATING ED ROBERSON,, a three-day event series celebrating legendary poet Ed Roberson and his unparalleled impact and poetic legacy, presented in partnership between Poets House and the Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center, which includes:
- 10/20: A poetry craft workshop “Take Good Notes with Ed Roberson” at Poets House
- 10/21: “The Environment as the Place of Poetry” Lecture & Discussion with Ed Roberson, introduced and moderated by Evie Shockley, hosted by the Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center
- 10/22: A poetry reading with Rosamond S. King, Dante Micheaux, Evie Shockley, and Ed Roberson at Poets House
Celebrating Ed Roberson Event Series
The Annual Stanley Burnshaw Lecture
The Environment as the Place of Poetry with Ed Roberson
Reading
Celebrating Ed Roberson: A Poetry Reading with Rosamond S. King, Dante Micheaux, Evie Shockley, and Ed Roberson
About Ed Roberson
Ed Roberson is the author of numerous poetry collections, including MPH and Other Road Poems (Verge Books, 2021) and Asked What Has Changed (Wesleyan University Press, 2021), a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize. His newest book, Red Silk Woven Carpet, The President’s Wife, and the Generals of Autumn, is forthcoming from selva oscura press.
Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Roberson spent many years as a special programs administrator at Rutgers University. A Chicagoan since 2004, he has taught at Columbia College, the University of Chicago, and Northwestern University. Roberson has also held posts at the University of California, Berkeley, and at the Cave Canem retreat for Black Writers. Since 2023 he has served as a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
Roberson’s varied career has also seen him working in Pittsburgh steel mills, in an advertising graphics agency, and as a research assistant in limnology, studying inland and coastal freshwater systems. His extensive travels have taken him to the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, the Peruvian and Ecuadorian Andes, Mexico, Bermuda, and West Africa. He has been across the United States on a BMW motorcycle.
Roberson’s many honors include the Jackson Poetry Prize, the Shelley Memorial Award, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award.
