Robert M. Drake

Robert M. Drake (also R.M. Drake) is the pen name of American poet Robert Macias.

Life
Drake was born in Miami, the son of Colombian immigrants. His parents were too poor to afford cable television.

He attended Miami Coral Park Senior High, where he did not fit in due to his clothes and ignorance of American teen culture. "I hated high school for the first two years," he later recalled. "I experienced a lot of bullying." Sometimes the bullying was so bad that he pretended to be ill, just so he could stay home that day.