Robert Gray is almost good at singing, playing the bass, writing poetry, and keeping his hair combed. His first book, I Wish That I Were Langston Hughes, has recently been published by Negative Capability Press, and he has taught writing and literature at the University of Alabama, Mic ...
Wordsworth, Rilke, Tony Harrison, Giovanni, Whitman, Stevens, Lorde, Cervantes, etc.
Favorite Books
The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, Leaves of Grass, Lyrical Ballads, Clarissa, Huckleberry Finn, Hamlet, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, The Awakening, v. and Other Poems, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Favorite Authors
Rainer Maria Rilke, Tony Harrison, Walt Whitman, William Wordsworth, Wallace Stephens, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Blake, William Shakespeare, Nikki Giovanni, Langston Hughes
As my new book, DREW: Poems from Blue Water, was in production, I was very flattered to receive very positive feedback from poets all over the country. However, the once the book came out, I have received an overwhelming number of comments from both literary people and regular people, many of whom knew Drew personally, and some of whom witnessed some of the events recounted in the book. Here ...
Here is the pre-publication announcement for my new book:Negative Capability Press is pleased to announce the Pre-Publication Sale of DREW: Poems from Blue Water by Robert Gray!Get a signed copy of Drew: Poems from Blue Water for the discounted price of $16 with Free Shipping!! (Retail price will be $18.95)Hurry! Offer expires August 31, 2009!To order, go to ...
While I can’t yet post the front cover design for my upcoming book, DREW: Poems from Blue Water (should be finalized any day now, though), I now have all of the blurbs for the back cover, so I thought I would share them. All are from wonderful poets. I cannot express how honored I am to have received blurbs from Lorna Dee Cervantes, Nickole Brown, Terry Hummer, Bonnie Roberts, and ...