Len Roberts

Len Roberts is the author of nine books of poetry, the most recent being The Silent Singer: New and Selected Poems (University of Illinois Press, 2001). He has won numerous awards for his poetry, including a Guggenheim Award, two National Endowment for the Arts Awards, a National Endowment for the Humanities Award, and six Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Awards. His fourth book, Black Wings, was selected by Sharon Olds for the National Poetry Series.
His poems have appeared in many journals, including The American Poetry Review, Poetry, Paris Review, and others; his poems have also been selected for Best American Poetry and The Pushcart Prize.

Robers is also a translator of Hungarian poetry; BOA Editions will publish his next book of translations, Before and After the Fall: New Poems by Sandor Csoori, in 2004.

Published in VQR

• Ready for Sleep, Summer 2001
• Heaven’s Gate, Summer 2001
• Mission, Late March, 1960, Spring 1998
• Knots, Spring 1998
• Learning Natural Instincts, Autumn 1993
• Building the Chicken Coop In Wassergass, Spring 1991
• On the Way to Quakertown, Spring 1991
• The Trains, Spring 1986
• Building the Barn Door, Spring 1986
• Following the Cat, Spring 1986