About Robert Bense

Robert Bense, a native of Illinois, has published widely in magazines and literary journals—from Agni to The Sewanee Review.

Readings in Ordinary Time, a book-length collection of poems, was published by The Backwaters Press.

He has worked in business, human relations and finance, and in education, teaching college writing and literature courses.  In recent years he has designed green gardens, and has worked on both coasts.  Currently he lives in Sacramento, California.

The wellspring of his work rises from diners of the Upper South to roadside ephemera along US Route 305 near Bishop, east of the Sierra.

Poems Recently Published

• “Shortly, King Lear” Notre Dame Review Winter 2012
• “Remedy for Pessimism”  Shenadoah February 2013
• “Public Face of the Private”  Pleiades  forthcoming
• Visitors will find his poem “Morandi” on Poetry Daily, 15 Aug 09.
• “Pentecostals at the River Baptizing” appears on Verse Daily, 17 Feb 06.
• “Fall: a passage Ekphrasis Spring/Summer 2013

Some Poets Recently Read

• Ted Kooser
• Devin Johnston
• August Kleinzahler