Robert Archambeau (born 1968) is a poet and literary critic whose works include the books ''Citation Suite'', ''Home and Variations'' ''Laureates and Heretics'', ''The Poet Resigns: Poetry in a Difficult World'', ''The Kafka Sutra'' and ''Inventions of a Barbarous Age: Poetry from Conceptualism to Rhyme''. He has also edited a number of works, including ''Word Play Place: Essays on the Poetry of John Matthias'', ''The &NOW Awards: The Best Innovative Writing'', and ''Letters of Blood: English Writings of Göran Printz-Påhlson''. Along with John Matthias he is the co-author of ''Revolutions: A Collaboration'', a collection of prose and poetry with images by the artist Jean Dibble.
Son of Canadian ceramic artist,
Robert Archambeau
Robert Archambeau (18 April 1933 — 25 April 2022) was a Canadian ceramic artist and potter. He also had an academic career in post-secondary art studies.
Personal history
Born in Toledo, Ohio, United States in 1933, he immigrated to C ...
, Robert Archambeau was born in
Providence, Rhode Island
Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. One of the oldest cities in New England, it was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, a Reformed Baptist theologian and religious exile from the Massachusetts Bay ...
and raised in
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. , Winnipeg had a city population of 749,6 ...
. He teaches English as a Professor at
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest College is a private liberal arts college in Lake Forest, Illinois. Founded in 1857 as Lind University by a group of Presbyterian ministers, the college has been coeducational since 1876 and an undergraduate-focused liberal arts i ...
near
Chicago
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His recent work explores the social context of the history of poetics: he has been called "our smartest poetic sociologist" in the scholarly journal ''Contemporary Literature''.
In 2001, he ran an election on the
POETICS list as a protest against the appointment of
Billy Collins
William James Collins (born March 22, 1941) is an American poet, appointed as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. He is a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York (retired, 2016). Collins ...
as
Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.
Anselm Hollo
Anselm Paul Alexis Hollo (12 April 1934 – 29 January 2013) was a Finnish poet and translator. He lived in the United States from 1967 until his death in January 2013.
Hollo published more than forty titles of poetry in the United Kingdom and ...
was elected to the honorary position.
He has received grants and awards from the
Academy of American Poets
The Academy of American Poets is a national, member-supported organization that promotes poets and the art of poetry. The nonprofit organization was incorporated in the state of New York in 1934. It fosters the readership of poetry through outreac ...
, the
Illinois Arts Council
The Illinois Arts Council is a government agency of the state of Illinois formed to encourage development of the arts throughout Illinois. Founded in 1965 by the Illinois General Assembly, the Illinois Arts Council provides financial and technica ...
, and the
Swedish Academy
The Swedish Academy ( sv, Svenska Akademien), founded in 1786 by King Gustav III of Sweden, Gustav III, is one of the Swedish Royal Academies, Royal Academies of Sweden. Its 18 members, who are elected for life, comprise the highest Swedish lang ...
.
''Slate'' magazine listed his book ''The Poet Resigns'' as one of the most underrated books of 2013.
Along with
R.S. Gwynn
Robert Samuel "Sam" Gwynn (born 1948, Eden, North Carolina) is an American poet and anthologist associated with New Formalism.
Life
Gwynn is married and lives in Beaumont, Texas. He graduated from Davidson College in 1969, where he won the Ver ...
he chairs the
Poets' Prize
The Poets' Prize is awarded annually for the best book of verse published by a living American poet two years prior to the award year. The $3000 annual prize is donated by a committee of about 20 American poets, who each nominate two books and who ...
committee.
Notes and references
External links
Samizdat BlogCritical Margins interview with Robert ArchambeauSalt Publishing Author PagePoetry Foundation BiographyPoetry Foundation BiographyUniversity of ND Press: ''Laureates and Heretics''Open Book: ''Letters of Blood''Robert Archambeau at Ohio University PressReview of ''Home and Variations'' in the''
Notre Dame Review''
Review of ''Home and Variations'' in ''PN Review''Review of ''Laureates and Heretics'' in ''PN Review''*
ttp://www.corpse.org/archives/issue_10/broken_news/hollo.html The Anti-Laureate Announcement
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1968 births
American literary critics
Poets from Rhode Island
Lake Forest College faculty
Living people
21st-century American poets