Rob Merritt, June 28, 7-9 p.m., Hill Freeman Library & Spruill Learning Center
Rob Merritt is professor and Chair of the Bluefield College English department in Virginia. He attended UNC Chapel Hill for his bachelor’s and master’s degrees, and his Ph.D. at the University of Kentucky. He has also taught American poetry and poetry writing at Jiangsu Second Normal University in Nanjing, China.
Merritt has articles published on Pound, Joyce and Yeats and has published the critical book, “Early Music and the Aesthetics of Ezra Pound.” He has also published “View from Blue-Jade Mountain,” “The Language of Longing” and “Landscape Architects.” His poetry has appeared in many journals and collections, and he is a member of the National Association for Poetry Therapy. Merritt has served as a fiction judge for the annual Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition since 2012.
