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For the Australian rules footballer, see [Len Roberts (footballer)](/source/Len_Roberts_(footballer)).

**Len Roberts** (March 13, 1947 – May 25, 2007) was an American [poet](/source/Poet).[1]

## Life

He graduated from [Siena College](/source/Siena_College), the [University of Dayton](/source/University_of_Dayton) with a master's degree, and from [Lehigh University](/source/Lehigh_University) with a Ph.D.

He presented some of his work at [Lafayette College](/source/Lafayette_College). [Allen Ginsberg](/source/Allen_Ginsberg) sent his manuscript to a publisher which was *Cohoes Theater*.

He translated three books of Hungarian poet [Sándor Csoóri](/source/S%C3%A1ndor_Cso%C3%B3ri), whose writing helped to inspire the [Hungarian Revolution of 1956](/source/Hungarian_Revolution_of_1956).

He taught at the [University of Pittsburgh](/source/University_of_Pittsburgh), [Muhlenberg College](/source/Muhlenberg_College), [Lafayette College](/source/Lafayette_College), and [Northampton Community College](/source/Northampton_Community_College) (for 33 years).[2]

## Awards

- 1988, [National Poetry Series](/source/National_Poetry_Series) Award, for *Black Wings*
- 1991 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Award for poetry
- two awards from the [National Endowment for the Arts](/source/National_Endowment_for_the_Arts)
- [National Endowment for the Humanities](/source/National_Endowment_for_the_Humanities) Fellowship
- two [Fulbright Scholar](/source/Fulbright_Scholar) awards

## Works

### Poetry

- ["Doing the Laundry"; "All day cutting wood, thinking"; "Contemplating Again the Jade Chrysanthemum, or Why the Ancient Chinese Poets Remained Unmarried"; "Acupuncture and Cleansing at Forty-Eight"; "Learning on Olmstead Street"; "More Walnuts, Late October", *Poetry Magazine*, April 2000](https://web.archive.org/web/20110715101909/http://www.poetrymagazine.com/archives/2000/April00/roberts.htm)
- *Cohoes Theater*. Santa Monica: Momentum Press, 1980.
- [*From the Dark*](https://archive.org/details/rescuefromdarksi00dewi). Albany: SUNY Press. 1984. ISBN 978-0-87395-758-8. Len Roberts.
- [*Sweet Ones*](https://archive.org/details/sweetonespoems0000robe). Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions. 1988. ISBN 978-0-915943-24-1.
- *Black Wings*. New York: Persea. 1989. ISBN 978-0-89255-141-5.
- [*Dangerous Angels*](https://archive.org/details/dangerousangelsp0000robe). Providence: Copper Beech Press. 1993. ISBN 978-0-914278-61-0.
- *The Million Branches: Selected Poems and Interview*. Mount Nebo: Yarrow Press, 1993.
- [*Counting the Black Angels*](https://archive.org/details/countingblackang0000robe). Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 1994. ISBN 978-0-252-06381-7. Len Roberts.
- [*The Trouble-Making Finch*](https://books.google.com/books?id=GdW3g2Z-pp0C&pg=PP1). Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 1998. ISBN 978-0-252-06693-1.
- [*The Silent Singer: New and Selected Poems*](https://books.google.com/books?id=mbRjIKp5dJoC). Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 2001. ISBN 978-0-252-06952-9.
- [*The Disappearing Trick*](https://books.google.com/books?id=t0iu8B7aNGkC). Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-252-07374-8.

### Translations

- [*The Selected Poems of Sándor Csoóri*](https://archive.org/details/selectedpoemsofs0000csor). Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press. 1992. ISBN 978-1-55659-047-4.
- Sándor Csoóri (2004). [*Before and After the Fall: New Poems*](https://books.google.com/books?id=dZ5Z7ErQvKUC). Rochester: BOA Editions, Ltd. ISBN 978-1-929918-46-1.

### Anthologies

- Peter Oresick & Nicholas Coles (eds.) (1990). ["Coal Miners"](https://archive.org/details/workingclassicsp00ores). *Working classics: poems on industrial life*. University of Illinois Press. p. [206](https://archive.org/details/workingclassicsp00ores/page/206). ISBN 978-0-252-06133-2. Len Roberts.
- Laure-Anne Bosselaar (ed.) (1999). [*Outsiders: poems about rebels, exiles, and renegades*](https://archive.org/details/outsiders00laur). Milkweed Editions. ISBN 978-1-57131-409-3.
- Charles Simic & David Lehman (eds.) (1992). [*The Best American Poetry, 1992*](https://archive.org/details/bestamericanpoet00simi). Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-684-19501-8.

## References

1. ["Len Roberts"](https://web.archive.org/web/20130515182544/http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Roberts__Len.html). Archived from [the original](http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Roberts__Len.html) on 2013-05-15. Retrieved 2009-09-21.

1. ["TPQ OnLine - Tribute to Len Roberts"](https://web.archive.org/web/20080509095108/http://tpqonline.org/LRtribute.html). Archived from [the original](http://tpqonline.org/LRtribute.html) on 2008-05-09. Retrieved 2009-09-21.

## External links

- [Len Roberts Collection](https://nationalpoetryseries.org/author/len-roberts/) at The National Poetry Series

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