Confederate memorial
Channel: William Fridrich
Date: 27/08/2011

The Dread Poet Roberts, Steve Roberts reading in Oakdale Cemetery, Wilmington North Carolina, 2011
"Manassas National Battlefield Park, October"
excerpted from "Another Word from Home".
Steve Roberts is the author of two full-length collections of poems, Another Word for Home, Main Street Rag Press, 2010, and A Space Inside A Space, St. Andrews College Press, 1999, and also of a chapbook, Every September . . ., Tragically Hip Press, 1998. He is the recipient of a 2010 North Carolina Arts Council Regional Artist Project Grant, and was a presenter on the "Art and Healing" panel at the 2009 North Carolina National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI-NC) Conference: Creative Hearts, Healing Minds. His poems have appeared recently in Pirene's Fountain, Wild Goose Poetry Review, Broad River Review and others and are forthcoming in Iodine and The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. Steve received a BA from UNC-Chapel Hill and a MA from Hollins College, where he received the Hollins College Graduate Fellowship and the Claytor Award for Poetry. His work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and received an Academy of American Poets Prize. He was selected for the 1999 North Carolina Writer's Network for the Blumenthal Reader Series and has recently performed his poems as the "Dread Poet Roberts," which can be found on three YouTube videos.
Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2010