Robert Hamblin

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Youth and education
Robert Hamblin was born in Jericho, Mississippi, in 1938. His parents ran a general store in Bethany, Mississippi (Brice’s Cross Roads). He attended Baldwyn Public Schools until 1954, when the family moved to Booneville, Mississippi, where he graduated from high school.

He attended Northeast Mississippi Community College in 1958, and went on to earn a B.A. from Delta State University in 1960. He earned an M.A. in 1965 from the University of Mississippi (UM), where he also earned a Ph.D. in 1976.

Career
He began his teaching career as a high school English teacher and baseball coach in Baltimore, Maryland, at Sparrows Point High School, from 1960 to 1962. He was a teaching assistant in the Department of English at the UM in 1964 for a year.

In 1965 he joined the English Department at Southeast Missouri State University where he taught for almost 50 years, until his retirement in 2013. Hamblin is a founding Director of the Center for Faulkner Studies at the university. He also taught in London for 2 years, the Netherlands for a year, and Japan for a year.

He was an associate editor of The Cape Rock from 1969 to 2012, and poetry editor of Aethlon: The journal of sport literature from 1984 to 2005.

Publications
His books of poems are Perpendicular Rain (1986), From the Ground Up: Poems of One Southerner's Passage to Adulthood (1992), Mind the Gap: Poems by an American in London (2004), Keeping Score: Sports Poems for Every Season (2007), and Crossroads: Poems of a Mississippi Childhood (2010).

Dust and Light: Poems, After Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2012) Crossroads: Poems of a Mississippi Childhood (2010) Keeping Score: Sports Poems for Every Seasons (2008) Mind the Gap Poems by an American in London (2003) From the Ground Up: Poems of One Southerner’s Passage to Adulthood (1992) Perpendicular Rain (chapbook) (1986)

Memoirs This House, This Town (2010) Bless You, My Father (2006)

Biographies Win or Win: A Season with Ron Shumate (sports biography) (1993)

edited editor of many books about William Faulkner