Roland Henry Flint (February 27, 1934 - January 2, 2001) was an American

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...

and professor of

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Georgetown University Georgetown University is a private university, private research university in the Georgetown (Washington, D.C.), Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789 as Georg ...

Life

Born in Park River,

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, he attended the

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before joining the

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. He served in post-war

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and then returned to and graduated from the University of North Dakota. He earned an

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in English from

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and a

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from the

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, where he wrote his dissertation on the early work of

Theodore Roethke Theodore Huebner Roethke ( ; May 25, 1908 – August 1, 1963) was an American poet. He is regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential poets of his generation, having won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1954 for his book ''The Wa ...

, and began to publish his poetry. He was a professor of English at

from 1968-1997, and received several university awards for his teaching. During his tenure at Georgetown, Flint received MacDowell (formerly MacDowell Colony) residency awards in 1976, 1983, and 1985. While at MacDowell, he befriended fellow awardee American composer and printer Paul W. Whear, who hand typeset and letterpress printed "''The Honey and Other Poems for Rosalind''" for its publication. Flint had a phenomenal memory for poetry, and could recite thousands of poems he knew "by heart". He was

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from 1995-2000, when he resigned due to poor health. He died of

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in 2001 at the age of 66. His papers are held at the

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Selected bibliography

Poetry

*''Easy'' (Louisiana State University, 1999) *''Pigeon'' (North Carolina Wesleyan, 1991) *''Hearing Voices'', with William Stafford, (Willamette University, 1991) *''Stubborn'' (University of illinois1990) *''Sicily'' (North Carolina Wesleyan, 1987) *''Resuming Green'' (The Dial Press, 1982) *''Say It'' (Dryad Press, 1979) *''The Honey'' ''and Other Poems for Rosalind'' (Unicorn Publications, Limited, 1976) *''And Morning'' (

Dryad Press Dryad Press is an American small press and publisher. History Dryad Press got its beginning in 1967 when Merrill Leffler and Neil Lehrman founded ''Dryad'' magazine. Leffler was a writer and editor and is currently the poet laureate of Takoma P ...

, 1975)

References

External links

*http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A43118-2001Mar8 accessed December 22, 2006 *http://www.calvin.edu/january/1999/keilflin.htm accessed December 22, 2006 *https://web.archive.org/web/20060214175155/http://aomol.net/msa/mdmanual/01glance/html/poet.html accessed December 22, 2006 American male poets People from Walsh County, North Dakota University of North Dakota alumni Poets from North Dakota Poets Laureate of Maryland 1934 births 2001 deaths University of Minnesota alumni Georgetown University faculty Deaths from pancreatic cancer 20th-century American poets 20th-century American male writers {{US-poet-1930s-stub