Robert Fanning

Robert Fanning is the author of four full-length collections of poetry: Severance (2019), Our Sudden Museum (2017), American Prophet (2009), and The Seed Thieves (2006), as well as two chapbooks: Sheet Music (2015) and Old Bright Wheel (2002). His poems have appeared in Poetry magazine, Ploughshares, Shenandoah, The Atlanta Review, and other journals. Recent work has also appeared on The Writer's Almanac on NPR, and on the Library of Congress website for the nationally-syndicated radio program "The Poet and the Poem." A graduate of the University of Michigan and Sarah Lawrence College, he is a professor of creative writing at Central Michigan University, and the founder and facilitator of the Wellspring Literary Series in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan.