Robert Siegel (poet)



Robert H. Siegel (born 1939 in Illinois) is an American poet and novelist. He has authored four books of poetry and five children's novels.

Life
Siegel graduated from Wheaton College in 1961, and received an MA in writing from Johns Hopkins University and a PhD in English literature from Harvard University. Siegel was a professor at Dartmouth College, Princeton University, and Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, and directed the graduate creative writing program for 23 years at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee where he is currently professor emeritus of English. His children's fiction includes the award-winning Whalesong trilogy, which has been translated into seven languages. He currently lives in Maine.

Recognition
His poetry has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, Poetry, Transatlantic Review, and has been nominated twice for The Pushcart Prize for Poetry.

Publications
Poetry
 * 1973 The Beasts & The Elders
 * 1985 In a Pig's Eye
 * 2005 The Waters Under the Earth
 * 2006 A Pentecost of Finches

Children's Literature
 * 1975 A Tale Whose Time Has Come
 * 1981 Whalesong, Crossways Books
 * 1982  The Kingdom of Wundle
 * 1990 Alpha Centauri
 * 1994 White Whale
 * 1994 The Ice at the End of the World

=See also==
 * List of U.S. poets