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“All that has dark sounds, has duende.” Ever since reading Federico García Lorca utter these words via AS Kline’s translation, I have known the arts are where I want my focus and attention. In my own work, and in my reading, I value poetry of experience, which I define as work that meaningfully engages the common ground that we all share on the basis of the elements of war, addiction, loss, recovery, love, work, parenting, caretaking and fear.
"Hospitals, freeway underpasses, emergency rooms and public libraries provide the backdrop for these understated blues of memory and place. From the waterfronts of the deep South to the trainyards of the Northwest, they chart the ragged outskirts of contemporary America. Greene is the grandchild of Hugo and Ray Carver, of Thomas McGrath and Bukowski, finding salvation in the breath of a poem, naming his ghosts one by one."-Joseph Millar
This autobiographical fiction manuscript.
The novel consists of three novellas:
I. The Book of Brothers (Completed Oct '23)
II. The Book of Aziza (Completed Mar '24)
III. The Book of Robek (Completed Sep '24).
(Pictured above Chris Greene 1977-2005)
2018 Squire Workshop Instructor & Featured Reading
at NC State University in Raleigh.
Workshop purpose: The Poetry of Experience.
2022 HBCU Technology Conference.
Rob Greene, et al.
Ideas on the English Department Revival.
Sponsored by Microsoft and Intel, Hosted by HP.
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Rob Greene is the founder and the publisher of Raleigh Review (2010 to Present).