Robert Sward

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 (hardcover and paperback editions), and will be available shortly in ebook form.

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 of 25 years, visual artist Gloria K. Alford.

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

https://www.facebook.com/robert.sward

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cd5hwl5VHc

U.K.'s musician Ira Lightman sings rendering of Sward's

"Hello Poem". Worth listening!