The Silent Singer: New And Selected Poems

By Len Roberts

Winner of the Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Arts, and National Poetry Series awards, Len Roberts presents his best past work with a sizable collection of new poems.

The Disappearing Trick

By Len Roberts

In The Disappearing Trick, Len Roberts wrestles with the loss of loved ones--whether that loss be through death, a son moving away to college, or simply how people fade from our lives and memories....

Counting The Black Angels: Poems

By Len Roberts

"Len Roberts is a poet of unwavering truthfulness and unwavering mercy, ' commented Sharon Olds about Black Wings, a 1988 National Poetry Series selection. Counting the Black Angels, Robert's eight...

The Trouble-Making Finch: Poems

By Len Roberts

On his own at sixteen after being raised by an alcoholic father and an abusive mother, Len Roberts is best known for poems of stark imagery that concentrate on his progress in life and how he has c...

The Disappearing Trick

By Len Roberts

In The Disappearing Trick, Len Roberts wrestles with the loss of loved ones--whether that loss be through death, a son moving away to college, or simply how people fade from our lives and memories....

Common Wealth

By Heather H. Thomas, Michael Teig, Bruce Bond, Anthony Petrosky, Samuel Hazo, Nathaniel Smith, W S Merwin, Paul Martin, Ruth Ellen Kocher, Gerald Stern, Julia Kasdorf, Elizabeth Alexander, John Repp, Gary Fincke, Karen Blomain, David Swerdlow, Craig Czury, Kathryn Hellerstein, Robin Hiteshew, Michele A. Belluomini, John Updike, Gerald Costanzo, Ed Ochester, JoAnne Growney, E. A. Miller, Betsy Sholl, Robin Becker, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Jan Beatty, Toi Derricotte, Jim Daniels, Kirk Nesset, Lynn Levin, Jay Parini, Jason Moser, W.D Snodgrass, Sherry Fairchok, Diane Ackerman, Lynn Emanuel, Ginny MacKenzie, MICHAEL HARDIN, George Fleck, Juanita Brunk, Nicole Cooley, Philip Terman, Leslie Anne Mcilroy, Maxine Kumin, Charles Clifton, David Livewell, David Chin, Valerie Fox, Helen Ruggieri, Ann E. Michael, Jeanne Murray Walker, Karl Patten, James Hoch, Ann Hostetler, Jack Veasey, Linda Tomol Pennisi, Sonia Sánchez, Deborah Burnham, Peter Krok, Leonard Kress, Peter Oresick, Judith Vollmer, Gabriel Welsch, George Looney, Daniel J. Wideman, Ron Mohring, Thomas Kielty Blomain, Len Roberts, Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, Carmine Sarracino, Janet Kauffman, Robert Small, Harry Humes, Barbara DeCesare, Steven Huff, Sandra Kohler, Jerry Wemple, Jeffrey Oaks, Berwyn Moore, Steven Myers, Ann Hayes, Marjorie Maddox, Kristin Kovacic, Helen Mallon, Dan Maguire, Antonio Vallone, Cynthia Hogue, Maggie Anderson, Deirdre O'Connor, Susan Weaver, Barbara Crooke, David Stuadt, Charles J. Rice, Gregory Djanikan, Matthew Perakovich, Sharon F. McDermott, Luise Van Keuren, Mark S. Borczon, Brad Comann, Shirley S. Stevens

Over the years, Pennsylvania has been graced with an abundance of writers whose work draws imaginatively on the state’s history and culture. Common Wealth sings the essence of Pennsylvania through...

From the dark

By Len Roberts

From the dark

By Len Roberts

Black wings

By Len Roberts

Sweet ones

By Len Roberts