Robert Cording

Robert Cording is professor emeritus at College of the Holy Cross, where he taught for thirty-eight years and was Professor of English and the Barrett Professor of Creative Writing. He has published eight collections of poems, including Common Life (CavanKerry, 2006); Walking With Ruskin (CavanKerry, 2010), A Word in My Mouth: Selected Spiritual Poems (Wipf and Stock, 2013), and, most recently, Only So Far (CavanKerry Press, 2015). He has received two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships in poetry and two poetry grants from the Connecticut Commission of the Arts. His poems have appeared in numerous publications such as the Nation, the Georgia Review, the Southern Review, Poetry, Kenyon Review, New Ohio Review, New England Review, Orion, and the New Yorker.