ROBERT SWARD has taught at Cornell
University, the Iowa Writers' Workshop and UC Santa Cruz. A
Guggenheim Fellow he was chosen by Lucile Clifton to receive a Villa
Montalvo Literary Arts Award. His more than 20 books include: Four
Incarnations (Coffee House Press), Rosicrucian in the Basement, The
Collected Poems, and God is in the Cracks (Black Moss Press, Canada),
now in its second printing. His latest, New & Selected Poems,
1957-2012, was published by Red Hen Press.
Born and raised in Chicago, Sward
served in the U.S. Navy in the combat zone during the Korean War and
later worked for CBC Radio and as book reviewer and feature writer
for The Toronto Star and Globe & Mail while living in Canada.
Sward now lives in Santa Cruz with his wife, visual artist Gloria K.
Alford.
For more info see:
www.robertsward.com
see also Contemporary Authors
Autobiography Series, Volume 206.
and, Garrison Keillor reads "God
is in the
Cracks"
http://jjwebb.ihwy.com/rosycrossfather/godisinthecracks_keillor.mp3
http://jjwebb.ihwy.com/rosycrossfather/godisinthecracks_keillor.mp3
