"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles."

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Robert Haight

P.O. Box 744
Marcellus, MI 49067

EDUCATION

MFA Creative Writing, Western Michigan University, 1986

Graduate Studies in Education, Michigan State University, 1983

BA English & linguistics, Western Michigan University, 1977

PUBLICATIONS

Poetry Collections

Emergences and Spinner Falls, New Issues Poetry and Prose, 2002
Water Music, Ridgeway Press, 1995

Poetry Anthologies

New Poems From the Third Coast, Wayne State University Press
Contemporary Michigan Poetry, Wayne State University Press
Passages North Anthology, Milkweed Editions

Non-Fiction Essays

The Northern Review, The Onion River Review, Rockford Review, Sidewalks, and elsewhere

Articles on Education

Teaching English in the Two Year College (NCTE), The Politics of Writing in the Two Year College (Heineman), Technical Communication, Writers at Work (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich)

Poetry

Trout, California Quarterly, South Coast Poetry Journal, Oxford Magazine, Passages North, The South Florida Poetry Review, The Hiram Review, New Delta Review, Louisville Review, The Driftwood Review, Reed Magazine, Red Cedar Review, Wayne Review, Controlled Burn, and elsewhere

AWARDS

Creative Artist Award, Arts Foundation of Michigan; Creative Artist Award, Kalamazoo Foundation; New Voices in Michigan Poetry, Poetry Society of Michigan; All-University Graduate Research and Creative Scholar, Western Michigan University

MEMBERSHIPS AND LISTINGS

Academy of American Poets, National Council of Teachers of English, Orion Society, Sierra Club, Trout Unlimited, ACLU, KNOW, Poets Against the War, Michigan Authors, Who's Who Among America's College Teachers, Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers

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