Robert Thomas Pringle (born 1943) is an American
poet,
schoolmaster and
park ranger
A ranger, park ranger, park warden, or forest ranger is a law enforcement person entrusted with protecting and preserving parklands – national, state, provincial, or local parks.
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Of Scottish descent and originally from
Westerville, Ohio, from 1962 to 1987 Pringle was a
schoolteacher, teaching English and
biology in
high schools. Since then, he has concentrated on poetry, but has also worked as a park ranger at the
Inniswood Metro Gardens
The Inniswood Metro Gardens (123 acres), is a botanical garden and nature preserve located at 940 South Hempstead Road in Westerville, Ohio. It is open daily from 7 am until dark without an admission fee. It is part of the Metro Parks system of C ...
, as a rural mail carrier, a laboratory technician in
bacteriology, a house painter, and as an attendant in a mental hospital.
[''Cold Front'' (Pudding House Publications]
p. 35
/ref> In 1998 he was the joint owner of a herd of Alpine goats.[
His poems have been published in '' Orbis, ]Envoi
Envoi or envoy in poetry is used to describe:
* A short stanza at the end of a poem such as a ballad, used either to address an imagined or actual person or to comment on the preceding body of the poem.
* A dedicatory poem about sending the book o ...
, Green's Magazine, Onionhead Literary Quarterly
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, Poetry Motel
Poetry (derived from the Greek '' poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meani ...
, Lilliput Review Lilliput may refer to:
Geography
* Lilliput (townland), a townland in County Westmeath, Ireland
* Lilliput, Dorset, a district in the town of Poole in Dorset, United Kingdom
* Lilliput Glacier, the smallest named glacier in the Sierra Nevada of C ...
, Psychopoetica'', and ''Pegasus Review
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In 2004 Pringle’s poem "Ricardo Klement Speaks of Border Wars" won the First Prize in the Scottish International Open Poetry Competition.Contributors to Poetry Salzburg Review]
at poetrysalzburg.com, accessed 12 December 2012
Pringle has three children.
Poetry collections
*''Cold Front'' (Pudding House Publications, 1998)
*''Inventing God'' (Pudding House Publications, 2008, )
Notes
External links
*Robert Pringle
Inventing God
(searchable) at books.google.com
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1943 births
American male poets
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)